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71. Michael Kelly, "With a Serious and Large Intent," Washington Post, 12 October
2001,23(A).
72. Editorial, "Clearing the Way," Washington Post, 8 October 2001,22(A).
73. David Rohde, "Anatomy of a Raid in the Afghan Mountains," New York Times, 3
June 2002,9(A).
74. James Risen, "Taliban Chiefs Prove Elusive, Americans Say," New York Times, 20
December 2001, l(B).
75. Paul Rogers, A War on Terror: Afghanistan and Afer (London: Pluto, 2004), 101.
76. Rogers, A War on Terror, 6, 14.
77. Human Rights Watch, "Cluster Bomblets Litter Afghanistan," 16 November 2001,
http:/ihrw.org/english/docs/2001/11/16/afghan3365~txt.htm Aug. 2005).
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78. Human Rights Watch, "Cluster Bomblets Litter Afghanistan," 2001.
79. Human Rights Watch, "Afghanistan: New Civilian Deaths Due to U.S. Bombing,"
30 October 2001, http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/10/30/afghan3 125-txt.htm (1 Jul.
2005).
80. Human Rights Watch, "Afghanistan: New Civilian Deaths Due to U.S. Bombing,"
2001.
81. An analysis using Lexis Nexis of the period discussed reveals that there were 74
headlines focusing on military progress, as opposed to only 27 addressing humanitarian
problems, and only 4 focusing on Afghan casualties.
82. Charles Krauthammer, "Bread and Bombs: The War is about Destroying the Tali-
ban, not Feeding Afghanistan," Washington Post, 12 October 2001,33(A).
83. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, "A Country Abandoned," Z Magazine, December 2001,32.
84. Makhmalbaf, "A Country Abandoned," 2001.
85. Doyle McManus, "Warfare Given a New Face," Los Angeles Times, 8 October
2001, l(A).
86. Mary McGrory, "The Afghan Famine Equation," Washington Post, 25 October
2001,3(A).
87. Editorial, "Feeding Afghanistan," Washington Post, 17 October 2001,34(A).
88. Editorial, "The American Offensive Begins," New York Times, 8 October 2001,
16(A).
89. James Dao, "U.S. Plane Crews Fight Hunger from the Sky," New York Times, 9
October 2001, 8(B); Dexter Filkins, "Food Falls from the Sky over Afghanistan, Strange
but Welcome," New York Times, 13 October 2001,7(B).
90. Anne Hull, "U.S. Planes Drop Food in Afghanistan," Washington Post, 17 Octo-
ber 2001,14(A).
91. Bany Bearak, "Pakistan Readies Forbidding Moonscape of Rock for 10,000 Af-
ghans," New York Times, 5 October 2001, 3(B); Barry Bearak, "Weary Afghans Flee
Bombs, Hunger, and the Taliban Draft," New York Times, 15 October 2001,7(B).
92. Nora Boustany, "Unfolding Catastrophe for Afghan Refugees," Washington Post,
2 1 September 2001,26(A).
93. Chip Cummins, "U.S. Increases its Afghan Aid Efforts, Prepares more Airdrops of
Food Supplies," Wall Street Journal, sec. 1,9 October 2001,8.
94. Damien Cave, "Too Quiet on the PR Front: US. Must Fight Image War," Chicago
Sun Times, sec. 1,4 November 2001,8.
95. CNN.com, "Secretary of Defense Holds News Briefing," 18 October 2001,
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/O110/08/se.2 1 .htrnl(23 Nov. 2005).
96. CNN.com, "Secretary of Defense Holds News Briefing," 2001.
97. Elizabeth Jensen and David Shaw, "Limited Access to Conflict Leaves Media
Frustrated," Los Angeles Times, 10 October 2001,3(A).