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| Afghanistan |
| White House proposing food drops |
| 2001-10-04 |
As it assembles a massive diplomatic, financial and military arsenal against terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden and his Taliban hosts in Afghanistan, the White House is weighing a proposal to deploy a much more basic weapon, targeted at the long-suffering Afghan people. Under a plan drawn up by U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Andrew Natsios, bags of American wheat would be air-dropped into the Afghan snow. Local merchants would be supplied with tons of U.S. commodities to take into the country by road from Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia to flood markets and drive down food prices in every major town and city. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |