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News: Excerpt from US Psy-Ops Radio Address in Afghanistan: "Do not confuse the cylinder-shaped bomb with the rectangular food bag"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (KumaLisa@aol.com)
Tue Oct 30 13:11:56 2001
From: KumaLisa@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:10:44 EST
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"Attention, noble Afghan people, As you know, the coalition countries have
been air-dropping daily humanitarian rations for you. The food ration is
enclosed in yellow plastic bags. They come in the shape of rectangular or
long squares. The food inside the bags is Halal and very nutritional.
In areas away from where food has been dropped, cluster bombs will also be
dropped. The colour of these bombs is also yellow.
All bombs will explode when they hit the ground, but in some special
circumstances some of the bombs will not explode. The cluster bombs are 6 cm
in diameter and 16 cm in length and they are cylindrical in shape. Of course
in future cluster bombs will not be dropped in areas where food is
air-dropped. However, we do not wish to see an innocent civilian mistake the
bombs for food bags and take it away believing that it might contain food.
We would like you to take extra care and not to touch yellow-coloured objects
thinking that they might be food bags. This issue is highly important,
especially in areas where bombs have been dropped. You should not forget and
take additional care.
Do not confuse the cylinder-shaped bomb with the rectangular food bag."
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The above radio address is currently being broadcast in Afghanistan by US
psychological operations (Psy-ops) in Dari and Pashto languages.
See link below for complete BBC Article from which the translation was
excerpted:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1624000
/1624787.stm
Happy bombing, Everyone.
Lisa
