THE PARTNERSHIP OF NATIONS IS HERE TO ASSIST THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN

A column of refugees trying to escape the bombing after their houses had been destroyed was strafed by American aircraft, and 20 members of the column, including nine children, had been killed.
 
Pentagon officials admit firing more than 5,000 missiles and bombs in the course of their military campaign, including cruise missiles and cluster bombs.
Jack Straw says the bombing must go on to help the people of Afghanistan.
 
U.S.-led bombardment flattened  homes in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, killing at least eight civilians, including four children. An Associated Press reporter at the scene in the  residential district and at a hospital later saw the bodies of seven of the dead three women and four children, who appeared between 8 and 13 years old. Moreover, a United Nations spokesperson described the humanitarian crisis in the country as 'the most serious, complex emergency in the world ever'.
 
THE PARTNERSHIP OF NATIONS IS HERE TO HELP.
   
U.S. warplanes bombed Red Cross warehouses and a nearby residential area in Kabul for the second time in a month, the Pentagon acknowledged.  There had been around one hundred victims among the doctors, nurses, and patients when the hospital received a direct hit from a bomb dropped during a US air raid over the city.
 
Bombing must go on to help the people of Afghanistan.
The Foreign Secretary says stopping the bombing campaign to help aid agencies would prolong the suffering of Afghans.
 
The raids followed one of the heaviest nighttime bombings in Kabul in days. Three children were killed -- two from one family living in the northwest area of the city and a third from the east part of town, officials at the Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital said.
 
Stopping the bombing campaign to help aid agencies would prolong the suffering of Afghans.

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