Version: Sept, 2004

Appendix 4. Daily Casualty Count of Afghan Civilians Killed in U.S Bombing and Special Forces Attacks, October 7 until present day
This photo file makes visible the effects of U.S. attacks upon Afghanistan which began on October 7, 2001 and continue today. I have also included pictures which display uniquely American forms taken of 'rooting for the home team.' Some portray the powerful connection between 'patriotism' in war [the flag], professional football, and display of the female body [so ubiquitous in American culture].The cheerleaders of today are the modern versions of the famous World War II pin-up girls. Just like the famous Vargas Girls of that war, cheerleaders today help boost troop morale [allegedly] and are patriotic. The fascinating and disturbing links between gender, violence and war are further explored in Joshua S. Goldstein, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa [Cambridge University Press, 2001]

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This file contains three types of photos : those showing the after-effects of U.S. bombing and the carrying-out of raids by U.S. ground troops ; those providing selected glimpses into the nature of the 'new Afghanistan' under Karzai; and those showing imagery of the western women 'supporting the boys' at war. The powerful juxtapositions are intended to stimulate thought about the connections between war as contest and spectacle, the professional sports metaphor in war, and the female imagery often harnassed to support the war effort. A half century history of such imagery - whether in print or live performances - exists, from the famous Vargas girls prints of the 40s to the nose art on warplanes, from Marilyn's performances for U.S. troops in Korea to the cheerleaders of today. Lastly, I find it astonishing that such exhibitions as those of professional sports cheerleading members take place on the soil of Muslim nations. The importance of photos in giving the public another way [beyond text and numbers] of 'seeing' war and its after-effects - what is created in the thereafter - is vitally important in a true democracy.

The number of Afghan civilian "impact deaths' is estimated to be 3,485 - 4034

Period Oct. 2001 - May 2003 * June 2003 June 2004 CIVILIAN CASUALTIES TOTAL LOW COUNT 3,073 412 3,485 HIGH COUNT 3,597 437 4,034

Chalmers Johnson reminds us, "during World War II, the British satirized our (U.S.) troops as 'over-paid, over-sexed, and over here.' Nothing has changed" (from Chalmers Johnson, "Three Rapes. The Status of Forces Agreement and Okinawa," Nation Institute (December 2003), at: http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1112 ). The over-sexed nature of many U.S. troops reveals itself in the unprecedented number of rapes and sexual misconduct cases over the past 18 months reported by U.S. servicewomen in the U.S. Central Command area of operations (Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan), as described in late February 2004 (for details, see Eric Schmitt, Rapes Reported by Servicewomen in the Persian Gulf and Elsewhere, New York Times (February 26, 2004) ).

For two decades, I have celebrated the start of the National Football League's season. Yet this year (2004) I cannot swallow it whole. In normal times, sexism and over-the-top flag-waving attach themselves to the NFL like slime barnacles on a boat and a deft pressing of the mute button blocks out the bluster. But in these upside-down times when war is peace, occupation is liberation, and democracy means voting for one of two pro-war Yalies, the game has been subsumed by a cesspool of war mongering impossible to ignore. The stink was up my nose during the season's opening game between the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts. Timed to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11, we were force fed bomber jets, silicon adorned cheerleaders, (from David Zirin, Are We Ready For Some Football? An Open Letter to Radical Helmet Huggers, CommonDreams.org (September 14, 2004), at: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0914-11.htm ).

Scenes of Afghanistan After the U.S Bombs - PART I

Photo 1 "Carpet bombing by B-52s of Tutakhan hill, northwest of Kabul, overlooking Bagram airport on October 31, 2001, during 2nd phase of the U.S air war" (Telegraph 12/14/01). On Wednesday, October 31st, for the first time in US air war, a B-52 bomber flew over the Shomali plains, dropping bombs upon Taliban positions in the Tutakhan hills. The silver plane high in the blue skies dropped over a hundred bombs. The whole landscape shook as each salvo of bombs set off at least 15 explosions over a distnace of a half a mile. Walls of orange flashes and clouds of dust enveloped the area. The attacks continued throughout the day and following days. The carpet-bombing was directed by U.S special forces on the ground.

Photo 2 Photo shows a barn used to dry grapes being emptied [A.P photo by Terry Richards]. In a pre-dawn helicopter attack, U.S. and U.K. special forces raid a poor, tiny mud brick village 75 kms north of Kandahar, Atalay, on June 6th. The raiding party detained 17 persons, but released 12, abducted the other 5.

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Photo 3 Bomb falls on street killing woman pedestrian on Oct. 18th in Macroyan housing complex [Reuters photo]

Photo 4 The Taliban Barracks of Qishla Jadeed in Kandahar in October

Photo 5 The village of Rahesh in Shomali plain in early November;

Photo 6 Incinerated Fuel Trucks around Kandahar in November;

The village of Rahesh in Shomali plain in early November;

Incinerated Fuel Trucks around Kandahar in November;

Photo 7 The Remains of the Village of Kamo Ado near Tora Bora early December

Photo 8 Hashmat surveys the damage to the house of his neighbor, Mohammad Sha Kir Pardis, which, he said, was caused by an errant U.S. bomb. Hashmat's house was also damaged, and he said his wife and children have fled to Pakistan, where he will soon join them. (Tribune photo by Pete Souza) http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/chi011121souza-gallery.photogallery?index=2

Photo 9 The text should read : Smoke rises on November 2nd after a B-52 dropped bombs on Taliban positions in the Tutakhan hills near Bagram. AP photo by Marco di Lauro.

The text should read : Smoke rises on November 2nd after a B-52 dropped bombs on Taliban positions in the Tutakhan hills near Bagram. AP photo by Marco di Lauro.

Photo 10 Two Afghan men sit on the debris of a destroyed house 5 km form Kandahar on October 31, 2001. The house was hit by US war planes (Source: REUTERS).

Photo 11 Residents from villages nearby look through the rubble on Sunday Oct. 14, 2001, in the village of Karam, 50 km west of Jalalabad AP/PTI,

Photo 12 Plumes of gray smoke fill the sky after a U.S. aircraft bombed a Talibancontrolled village close to the frontline village of Rabat, near Bagram, 50 kilometers from Kabul, Monday, Nov. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)

Photo 13 A bus filled with fleeing persons is bombed on Old Road, north of Kabul in early November, killing 35 persons.

Plumes of gray smoke fill the sky after a U.S. aircraft bombed a Talibancontrolled village close to the frontline village of Rabat, near Bagram, 50 kilometers from Kabul, Monday, Nov. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)

A bus filled with fleeing persons is bombed on Old Road, north of Kabul in early November, killing 35 persons.

Photo 15 On November 1st , B-52s dropped 'sticks' on the Kala Kata hills above Taloqan, hitting Taliban positions. AP photo by Sergeir Grits Photo 14 On October 25th , U.S warplanes bombed the Taliban-controlled village of Darya Khanah in the Shomali plain. AP photo by Marco di Lauro

Photo 16 U.S. forces land in Tora Bora region searching fot Al Qaeda

Photo 17 Paying homage ... with a rainbow overhead, an Afghan man visits the al-Qaeda cemetery in Kandahar, where more than 80 foreign fighters of Osama bin Laden's terrorist group are buried. The cemetery has become a place of pilgrimage for supporters of the Taliban who believe the graves have magical healing properties. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Photo 18 The amous Sufi shrine of Shah Maqsood Agha in the village of Khakriz was destroyed by U.S. bombs in the evening of November 10th [AP photo by Ed Wray]

Photo 19 Taliban-controlled village of Qalai Bashi in Shomali Plain is hit by a U.S. bomb

Photo 20 Soldier of 82nd Airborne searches Afghan woman during a U.S. raid upon the village of Masi Kalay, Paktia, on September 29, 2002 [AP photo by Wally Santana];

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Photo 21 One-year old Azizullah, injured' lies in his uncle's arms at Jalalabad Public Hospital. Both were wounded in the U.S. bombing of Karam on October 11th [AP photo by Enrico Marti]

Photo 22 The Taliban positions near Kala Kata, 40 kms north of Taloqan, were hit heavily on November 6th. Photo by I. Sekretarev, AP. At 3 AM on January 24th, helicopter-born U.S. Special Forces descended upon the village of Hazar Qadam in Uruzgan, killing 22 innocent people, terrorizing and beating many, and abducting 27 to Kandahar. Bari Gul (Photo 23) says his brother Haji Sana Gul was a member of a local disarmament commission, with no connection to the Taliban. His brother was killed in the raid on Oruzgan -- and last week, Bari Gul was paid compensation: 10 American $100 bills.(Photo: Qudratullah Ahmady for NPR);

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Photo 24 Some of the trucks and other vehicles villagers claim were wrecked in the attack on the school, now the headquarters of the regional disarmament commission (Photo: Steve Inskeep, NPR)

Photo 25 During October, U.S. planes severely bombed downtown areas of Kandahar, destroying numerous buildings.

Photo 26 A village store destroyed by U.S. bombs upon Zhawar area in early January 2002 [source: Amir Shah, A.P. photo]

Photo 27 Afghans look at boxes of Osama sweets on a shelf in Kandahar, February 16, 2002, two months after Taliban left the city [A.P. photo by Gregory Ball]

Photo 29 Karzai [a puppet?] with his private 'protectors', in Nov. 2001, members of the 5th U.S. Army Special Forces group. from Fort Campbell, KY. Photo taken in Uruzgan province Photo 28 a local dog takes a bite at a soldier of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, who was part of the U.S. raid upon the village of Naray, Paktia, on the Pakistani border, on November 2/3, 2002 [A.P/Getty Images photo by Scott Nelson]

Photo 30 shows a remnants of a house in Kandahar destroyed by US bombs on October 31, 2001

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Photo 31 Abdul Jalal, 60, carries water through his ruined village of Ghra near to Kandahar, Ju;ly 21, 2002. The village was abandoned after a US bombing raid [AP photo]

Photo 32 Wreckage of the United Nations' de-mining agency in Kabul, hit be errant U.S. missiles at 4:50 AM on October 9, 2001, killing four nightwatchmen.

Photo 33 U.S. 82nd Airborne descend upon a village northeast of Khost, Paktia, on November 7, 2002, as part of Operation Alamo Sweep, raiding homes including that of woman shown here A.P. photo, Scott Nelson, pool.

Photo 34 U.S. 82nd Airborne troops raid the village of Lankarwali, Paktia, on September 23rd, trying to find a former Taliban police chief. Failed. A.P. photo

Photo 36 Soldiers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne raid Kikara village near Khost, hood and abduct a villager for 'interrogation' on November 7th [ AP photo, Scott Nelson] .The U.S. military refers [in Orwellian language] to such detained people as "persons under control" [PUC].

Photo 35 Cheerleaders of the NBA's Washington Wizards basketball team, 'perform' for the U.S. soldiers at Bagram Air Base, on November 14, 2002 [AP photo, Vincent Thian], as an example of the western version of objectifying [oppressing?] women. Later this week, the cheerleaders will stage a similar performance at the U.S. base in Kandahar.

Photo 36 and 37. The squad danced and sang for hundreds of crewmembers aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt on November 16, 2001. Some crew members sat on the wings of F-14s and F/A-18s to get a better view of the seven cheerleaders, wearing hotpants and waving pom-poms to James Brown's "Living in America." Lory and Lindsay, cheerleaders of the Miami Dolphins, sign bombs heading for Afghanistan in later November 2001, aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier. Later, their cheerleader teammates lounge on the bombs. ( Source. Jaime Edmondson, "Behind the Scenes")

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Photo 39 A member of the 82nd Airborne, "secures an area" in the village of Yayeh Khel, Paktia, on November 14, 2002 [AP Photo by Amel Emric]

Photo 40 "'the girls go to war', Pasadena's California Girls do their part by entertaining American troops overseas," The Girls in the cockpit of a KC-10 refueling aircraft [from Pasadena Weekly, March 7, 2002]

"'the girls go to war', Pasadena's California Girls do their part by entertaining American troops overseas," The Girls in the cockpit of a KC-10 refueling aircraft [from Pasadena Weekly, March 7, 2002]

On October 27, 2001, a U.S. Navy F/A-18 dropped a munition upon the village of Ghani Khel in the Shomali Plain. Britain's Sky T.V. News on the scene, reported a family of ten was missing and 20 people - all but one civilians - were injured. Photo 41 shows a severely injured 22-year-old man, Bodamoli, being transported away in a wheelbarrow [AFP photo] Photo 41

Photo 42 Photo 43 On November 13, 2002, the 82nd Airborne occupied the village of Ahad, Paktia [left photo by Amel Emric, AP Photo] and Photo 40 the day after, November 14th , the NBA Washington Wizards' cheerleaders 'boosted morale' of U.S troops at the Bagram Air Base north of Kabul [right photo].

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A member of the U.S. 82nd Airborne searches a motorcyclist during a raid upon Sharana, Paktika, on November 12, 2002 [photo Amel Emric, A.P.]. One of the visiting Washington cheerleaders socializes with assembled U.S. troops on Bagram air base in a hangar on November 14, 2002 [Shah Marai, AFP].

Photo 46 Photo 47 Home of a wealthy import-exporter in Kandahar bombed by the U.S. in late October 2001. The house had been rented out to 'Arabs' [photo by Dan Bartletti, Los Angeles Times]. An Afghan girl cuts into a poppy bulb to extract the sap, on a farm near Ghani Khiel, 60 kms east of Jalalabad, in April 2002. The Karzai regime has not offered any meaningful alternative to poor farmers and in post-Taliban Afghanistan, poppy cultivation has soared [AP photo by Amir Shah].

Photo 48 Photo 49 The ferocious bombing of the Tora Bora mountains is captured in this photo by La Repubblica [Italy] around December 15, 2002. An Afghan mother brings her child to the Arab martyrs cemetary in Kandahar, July 11, 2002, where some 74 Arab fighters who died defending Kandahar are buried [photo by AFP, Banaras Khan].

Photo 50 Photo 51 In left photo, Taliban militia pose in front of a bombed-out truck in Kandahar, November 1, 2001 [A.P. photo from USA Today]. In right-hand photo, Abdul Kayum returns to find his bombed vehicle. Kayum said he had stopped on the road linking Herat to Kandahar in early December to pray, when his vehicle was hit by a U.S. airstrike [A.P. photo by Jerome Delay]

Photo 52 Photo 53 Some of the [fierce?] Pakistani jihadis who had crossed into Afghanistan in late October 2001. Many were killed and others captured. These two prisoners were released by the Kabul authorities [photo in The News 11/12/02]. One of the many structures bombed on the night of November 10/11, in the village of Shah Agha, 52 kms. northwest of Kandahar. Neighbors visit the remains of a house [Tomas Munita, A.P. photo]. The U.S.mainstream cororate mainstream press reports that 16 persons doed in the attack, but many witnesses mentiona much highe figure. The veteran Pakistani reporter, Kamal Haider who visited the village shortly after the attack, counted 128 corpses [as reported in the German daily, Die Tageszeitung 11/13/01].

Photo 54 "This is our way of showing our support and how we love America," said Mrs. Renee Linalzone, as she painted 'Captain' with her daughter [Marla Brose, The Gainesville Sun, A.P. photo]. Photo 55 On October 30, 2001, U.S warplanes began carpet-bombing Taliban troop lines north of Kabul, which wove between villages [Guardian photo, 10/30/01]

"This is our way of showing our support and how we love America," said Mrs. Renee Linalzone, as she painted 'Captain' with her daughter [Marla Brose, The Gainesville Sun, A.P. photo].

On October 30, 2001, U.S warplanes began carpet-bombing Taliban troop lines north of Kabul, which wove between villages [Guardian photo, 10/30/01]

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Remains of a mud brick home in a Kabul neighborhood, bombed by U.S. warplanes in October 2001. The photo on the right shows U.S. air strikes hitting mountain ridges on March 10, 2002, near the villages of Sherkhankheyl, Marzak, and Bobelkhiel, in the battle of Shah-i-Kot in Paktia province [A.P. photo pool, Joe Raedle]

Photo 58 Photo 59 Photo on left is of a woman showing a Flash Bang grenade hurled in her village in the middle of the night of May 24th in an attack by U.S. Special Forces [photo by Eugene Hoshiko, A.P.]. The photo on right shows an old villager watching a member of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, during a raid on a village 16 kms. from the Pakistan border on June 10, 2002 [photo by Eugene Hoshiko, A.P.]. These raids have led to increased resentment of the foreigners.

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A 2'000 lb. 'smart' JDAM bomb fell into an poor neighborhood near the Kabul airport at 3 AM on October 13th , destroying four homes and killing four civilians, including Nagina, a 12 yr. old girl [photo by A. Shah, A.P.]. A raiding party of the U.S. 82nd Airborne arrives on the ground at Mashi Kalay, Paktia, on September 29, 2002 [photo by Sgt. Sean A. Terry, USA]

Photo 62 An Afghan woman flees the Khanabad area with her child in November 2001 [Reuters photo, 11/24/01]

Photo 63 Burying the dead from U.S. bombing of Kabul in October 2001.

Photo 65 The well-marked warehouses of the International Red Cross in Kabul were bombed twice by U.S. planes, on October 16 and 26, 2001 [photo from Christian Peacemaker Team 1/14/02].

Photo 64 Jay Fiedler of the Miami Doplhins football team, led the team onto the field for their match against the Colts. He carried an American flag which had flown over Afghanistan on November 18, 2001, and was presented to the Dolphin chererleaders during their 'morale-boosting' visit in Afghanistan in November 2001 (Source: MiamiDolphins.com: Press Box)

Photo 66 A Taliban's Russian Mi-8 helicopter gunship destroyed on Kandahar airport in early October 2001.

Photo 67 Two Afghans recite the Koran during Friday prayers under a large sign "Allah" painted on a hill in the outskirts of Kabul [AFP photo 12/1/02]

Photo 68 Picking up after a U.S. bombing raid in Paktia province. The village of Niazi Qalaye was severely bombed in the early morning of December 29th , killing 52 - 1`07 civilians. The victims had gathered to attend a wedding [photo by Reuters].

Two Afghans recite the Koran during Friday prayers under a large sign "Allah" painted on a hill in the outskirts of Kabul [AFP photo 12/1/02]

village of Niazi Qalaye was severely bombed in the early morning of December 29th , killing 52 - 1`07 civilians. The victims had gathered to attend a wedding [photo by Reuters].

Photo 69 Photo 70 The effects of U.S. 'precision' bombing in the city of Kandahar. The photo on the left shows a worker checking a phone line in Kandahar city. "Much of the city's infrstructure was destroyed during U.S. air strikes" [photo by John MacDougall, Agence France-Presse]. Photo on the right shows a street in downtown Kandahar [Agence France-Presse photo]. sources: http://www.msnbc.com/news/671734.asp and http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/monde/0112/mon_101120044145.html

Photo 72 Photo 71 Young Afghan refugee boys push an elderly Afghan woman in a wheelbarrow at the Chaman border post on November 13, 2001. Refugees continued to pour out of Kandahar as word spread amongst the remaining population that the Taliban had withdrawn from Kabul and were heading south [David Guttenfelder, A.P. photo]. U.S. heavy bombing of Taliban front lines north of Kabul around November 10, 2001

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Iqbal Uddin, 10, was by shrapnel in the intense U.S. bombing of the village of Kama Ado on the night of November 30/December 1st. The U.S. military denied the incident, saying the bombing "did not happen" [photo by Y. Monakhov, A.P.].

An injured Afghan girl lies in a hospital in Kabul, October 21, 2001. Witnesses said the girl was the only survivor of her family after her two parents, two sisters and a brother were killed during a U.S. strike on Kabul on Sunday. Officials said that the Sunday raids killed 18 civilians and wounded 23 [photo by Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters].

Photo 75. At the Sar Shahi refugee camp. east of Jalalabad, some 3'000 families or 18'000 people from the northern provinces, occupy acres of patchwork tents [Philip Robertson for Salon.news 1/19/02].

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Many returning Afghan refugees find neither shelter nor jobs. The luckier ones spend freezing nights in bullet-scared ruins in Kabul. The unlucky ones sleep huddled together under frail plastic tents. Meanwhile. the Karzai puppet regime boasts of planned five-star hotels [Hyatt Hotels], the new beauty salon in the Afghan Women's Ministry grounds in Kabul, the return of the international cricket federation, and spending on police and the Kabul to Kandahar highway.

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Photo 77. The International Red Cross warehouse burning in Kabul, after being hit a second time on October 26, 2001, with 8 tonsof U.S. bombs [photo by Amir Shah, A.P.]

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Photo 78 Raid by 250 troops of the U.S. 82nd Airborne upon two compounds outside Khost on October 30, 2002. As the sun came up, US troops surrounded the two compounds, moved in, kicked open doors, and searched for weapons. While troops frisked men and women, 'clearing teams' swept through each room. Nothing was found [photo from Redding.com, at http://www.redding.com/news/world/past/20021031world005.shtml].

Photo 79 A 16-year old ice cream vendor injured in the U.S. bombing of Jalalabad on the first night. He lost his left foot, thumb and two fingers of his right hand [photo by Aziz Haidari, Reuters].

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Photo 81 Photo 80 shows Afghans carrying body of one of the 11-18 victims of U.S. bombing of Kabul on October 28, 2001. U.S. bombs killed 8-15 in the Qala-e-Khater neighborhood and 3 in the Macroyan housing complex in Kabul

A 'Morale Boost' from Home to Support the 'Winning Team' in Operation Enduring Freedom. Photos and details of the Miss Universe/Miss Teen USA tour to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, November 19-27, 2002, at : http://www.missteenusa.com/missteenusa/year.html. The USO/AFE tour was sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, ESPN, Wal-Mart, Walt Disney. etc.. The photo above shows the two misses with a Humvee patrol unit of the U.S. Marines at Camp Commando, in Doha, Kuwait, on November 24, 2002.

Photo 82 A look at the 'new' Kandahar under U.S. occupation, December 2001

Photo 83 Photo 83. Pamela of the Washington Wizards Cheeleader Dancers team boosts U.S. troops' morale on November 14, 2002 at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan [photo from "Middle East Tour Journal," at http://www.nba.com/wizards/dance/Kelly_Bs_Middle_East_Tour_Jo-6139056.html ]

Photo 84 U.S. Special Forces "observe" Taliban prisoners at the infamous Sheberghan prison, controlled by Uzbek warlord General Rashid Dostum. These are the lucky Taliban who were not executed en route from Mazar to Sheberghan, in containers and in the desert as we now know, under the eyes of U.S. Special Forces [photo by Robert Young Pelton, Adventure, March 2002]

Photo 85 The woman crowned [by Donald Trump's Miss Universe Organization] as the world's Miss Universe 2002, Panamanian Justine Pasek, signs a bomb on a F-16 fighter plane, on November 25, 2002, at the Al Jabar air base in Kuwait. Pasek was on a USO-organized tour on U.S. bases in the region, along with Miss Teen USA [photo from http://www.missuniverse.com/missuniverse/year-picts/1125.html]

Photo 86 Capt. Dana "Smudge" Potts [center], commander of the 70 aircraft wing, flying F-14s off the U.S.S. George Washington, likened a strike on Khost to "a gunfight at the O.K. Corral." In the photo, Potts celebrates his 1000th carrier landing [photo from The Virginian Pilot, December 19, 2002]

Photo 87 J.C. Penney offered a new toy gift, 'Forward Command Post," for Christmas 2002 : a "prebombed" civilian home with a U.S. soldier in it [ details at http://www.traprockpeace.org/jcpennytoy.html ]

Photo 88 Two girls sit amidst rubble of their home in Qala-e-Wakil destroyed by U.S bombs on October 14th and the U.S.S Theodore Roosevelt carrier in Ishmailiya on its way to the Indian Ocean. ( Source: Daily Star News, 10/14/01)

Photo 89 A January 2002 photo of "Kabul moves towards normalcy" - the 'normal' objectification of women as seen in this Kabul store selling postcards of 'Indian beauties' and a young boy looking at them [ from http://www.theweek.com/22jan06/events11.htm ]

Photo 90 On February 3, 2002, six members of the Washington Redskinettes gave a patriotic Super Bowl pre-game show in hanger #2 of the U.S.S. George Washington as it sailed off the Atlantic Coast. On July 19th, the carrier would begin operations in the Arabian Sea area ( Source: " The Flagship" Feb 14,2002).

Photo 91 The destruction in Kandahar caused by the heavy U.S. bombing around October 18, 2001 [photo at http://www.yenisafak.com/arsiv/2001/ekim/18/dunya.html ]

Photo 92 Karzai protected by four members of his personal U.S. Special Forces unit, in his capital city, Kabul, on July 28, 2002, as he leaves an international meeting [Reuters photo]. Karzai is one of two 'presidents' so protected abroad - the other is Georgia's Sheverdnaze.

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Photo 95 U.S. Army troops of the 82nd Airborne enter houses, search children and confiscate property in a village in Khost, Paktia, on New Year's day 2003. A group of Afghan children look on as a US soldier stands outside their house [AP photos by Pat Roque].

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Photo 96 Photo 97 Cheerleaders of two teams - the Washington Redskins and Washington Wizards - visited U.S. troops in Afghanistan over Thanksgiving 2002. The ten young women, aged 19 -27, dressed in a succession of 'revealing outfits', ran through a variety of routines. Between costume changes and bouts of French can-can. Crystal, one of the Wizards dancers, said to the troops, "thanks to you, we are all safe in our homes." Photos of the Redskinettes performing at Bagram (Source: www.xapz.com/pictures/cheerleaders2.htm)

Photo 98 Ramazan, 42, a barber from the village of Karghi, in Laghman province, lost his four young children [aged 7, 6, 4 and 1] during a U.S. bombing in October 2001 [photo by Stephen Crowley, Nov. 24, 2001]

Photo 99 Photo 100 The poor neighborhood of Qala-e-Chaman was hit on October 11, 2001, killing a 12-year old girl and injuring four civilians. A bomb inscribed "With Love" is loaded on the carrier, U.S.S. Enterprise on October 11, 2001.

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On Thursday, Tanksgiving 2002, two Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders Julie Holeman and Kelly Kirchoff - and Wayne Newton enterrtained troops n the nuclearpowered carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea (Source: from DoD, "Defend America, US Navy Photograph Dec. 20, 2002 by Phillip A McDavid).

Photo 102 A U.S Special Forces member watches over [his] trainees of the Afghan Army 5th battalion parading in the Kabul military academy compound. U.S. advisers are training the new puppet army [as in Vietnam 40 years ago], though the Afghan Defense Minister, 'Marshal' Fahim is not supportive [AP photo, B.K. Bangash]

Photo 103 Abdul Baseer, 36, a cook, walks by a wall with graffiti in Pashto language, saying "Holy War. Death to the U.S." Monday, May 27, 2002 in front of a prison in Kandahar. Local people said the words were recently painted [A.P. photo, Eugene Hoshiko]

Photo 104 On October 14/15, U.S. psyop planes dropped these leaflets on the provinces of Paktia and Samangan, The leaflet aanounces, "the partnerhip of nations is here to help." That day of October 15th, U.S. warplanes dropped bombs on the provinces of Kabul, Nangarhar, Kandahar and Balkh which killed 16 - 21 innocent civilians.

Paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne carry out a raid upon a village 16 kms. from the Pakistan border, on June 10, 2002 [A.P. photo, Eugene Hoshiko].

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Photo 106 U.S. Special Forces of the 5th group guide B-52 bombers dropping 2'000 lb bombs on Taliban positions in Zard Kamar, Samangan, on October 28, 2001. This offensive from Poli-i-Khomri northwestward ultimately led to the capture of Mazari-Sharif on November 7th .

Photo 107 A U.S. Special Forces soldier walks in front of a cave in the area of Chaghcharan winter 2002 [photo by Rick Loomis, TPN]

Lt. General Daniel McNeiil, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, joins with cheerleaders Jill [Miami] and Mindy [Jacksonville], for some patriotic holiday cheer as part of 'the winning team' on December 22, 2002 at Bagram air base [Pat Roque, A.P. photo (at Yahoo! News 12/22/02)].

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Photo 110 Akhtar Mohammed, 7, looks for match sticks in the rubble of bombed homes in Kandahar in this photo dated July 8, 2002 Photo 109 [AP photo, Rex Arbogast]. The house here was destroyed in Ex-Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell, visited the British Marines in Oman on a 'morale boosting the U.S. bombing attacks in 2001. junket.' Before singing to over 6'000 marines out in the desert in a special area dug out for the event, Halliwell Hill, she took some time off on the beach near the Hilton Hotel in Salalah with her armed forces escort. She gave two shows, October 6-7, sporting her "trademark minimalist outfits." The trip cost British taxpayers $ 650'000 [from BBC News, October 6, 2001 and Ananova.com, October 6, 2001]

Photo 111 photo by the BBC [October 25, 2001] of children injured in U.S. bombings being brought to a hospital.

Photo 112 U.S. troops of the 101st Airborne raid the village of Hesarak in Logar province on July 12, 2002 [and again on July 16th] and abduted 3 villagers to Bagram. Local villagers protested loudly their innocence [AP photo, Regan Morris]

A rusting fuel track hit a year ago by U.S. warplanes on the road between Deleram and Zaranj, close to the town of Gorgore. U.S. warplanes struck close to one hundred such private trucks beginning with the first attack on October 22, 2001, just north of Kandahar. Such attacks were clearcut violations of international humanitarian laws which forbids striking civilian targets. Much of the diesel fuel went to supply generators, necessary as US warplanes had destroyed the electricity grid. All of Afghanistan's fuel was imported from Iran.

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Photo 114 An October 3, 2002 raid by Blackhawk helicopter-born troops of the 82nd Airborne in the border region of Paktia Province as part of the much touted 'Operation Alamo Sweep' involving more than 2'000 U.S. troops. The Operation came up empty-handed.

Photo 115 Troops of U.S. 82nd Airborne raid a village close to Spin Boldak in Kandahar province on January 30, 2003, carrying out house-to-house searches [which anger Afghans]. [AP photo/U.S. Army, Dennis Steele]

A U.S. reporter dutifully recording "the truth" as given by Col. Roger King at Bagram air base on July 1, 2002, the day an AC-130 gunship strafed three villages in Uruzgan, killing over 60 innocent Afghan civilians [AP photo by Regan Morris].

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Photo 117 Melissa Gutierrez [right] and Julie Moulas of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders 'entertain' and bring holday cheer to the U.S. troops assembled at Kandahar International Airport on December 21, 2001. General Tommy Franks attended the event [AP photo, Rob Curtis].

Photo 118 Afghans view houses reduced to rubble in a residential area of the capital city Kabul, October 13, 2001 following a sixth night of U.S. aerial bombing. At least one civilian was killed and four injured near Kabul airport when a bomb landed near a poor residential area. Six houses near the strike site were flattened by the blast. Afghans had a brief respite from U.S. led air raids before bombing runs resumed on Saturday as enraged Taliban authorities searched for more bodies in the rubble of a remote village flattened by a direct strike. REUTERS/ Sayed Salahuddin.

a leaflet distributed on January 31, 2003 in Spin Boldak by Hekmatyar's Hezb-e-Islami written in local Pashto language, says : "be ready for jihad. We are going to clean the floor with the U.S. troops" [Reuters photo, Simon Denyer]

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Photo 120 General Rashid Dostum who fought on the Soviet-side in the 1980s war, then changed sides many times, and stands accused of summary execution of prisoners who surrendered at Kunduz in November 2001 and mass rapes against Pashtun women in the Mazar area, completed this 50-foot indoor swimming pool adorned with crystal chandeliers in late 2001at his villa in Sheberghan. He apparently inaugurated it on a midnight swim with his detachment of U.S. Special Forces [from Christopher Torchia, A.P. 9/7/02]. A visitor in 2001 said that Dostum's compound resembled a vandalised version of a Miami drug dealer's mansion.

Photo 121 troops of the U.S. 82nd Airborne search the Adhi Ghar mountains and caves north of Spin Boldak on February 1, 2003. They found lanterns, blankets, mules, vitamins, and weapons [Eugene Hoshiko/Pool, A.P. photo]

On January 27, 2003, US warplanes and troops of 82nd Airborne attacked the Adhi Ghar mountains north of Spin Boldak in Kandahar. Danish and Dutch F16s participated in the heavy bombing. No evidence was presented that any Taliban or other opposition fighters were killed in the operation. US troops did abduct Afghans from a refugee camp near Spin Boldak. Photo shows a US convoy in the Adhi Ghar area [AP photo/pool, Erik de Castro].

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Photo 123 Two western reporters visited Dostum's villa in Jawzjun, a village 120 kms. west of Mazar on November 29, 2001. Dostum's villa has an outdoor pool, satellite phones, and the US-backed general drives around in an armored Cadillac. The reporters wrote "on the dusty highway to Jawzjun, we passed several tractortrailer rigs that were hauling prisoners." That evening, the reporters had dinner in the villa with US Special Forces, journalist, and Dostum's public relations agents.

Photo 124 U.S. Marines of the 26th MEU conducted a raid on January1/2, 2002, on a village, Garmawak, in Helmand province, near an abandoned Al Qaeda camp called Rut Para [photo by lance corporal Nathan E. Eason of the 26th MEU].

Photo 125 Abdul Haq, village elder of Engran, in Baghran valley of Helmand province, gestures to a gun-drawn soldier of the U.S. 82nd Airborne on February 19, 2003. The troops of 82nd Airborne raided and searched villages in the area [AP photo, David Swanson].

Photo 126 Troops of US 82nd Airborne raid and search through private homes in small villages of the Baghran valley, February 1219, 2003. Troops moved from home to home, village to village in the area [Reuters photo, David Swanson]

Photo 127 US soldiers of the 82nd Airborne raid a village in the long Baghran valley, February 24, 2003 [A.P. photo, Aaron Favila]

Photo 128 Member of 82nd Airborne, Stacey White, body searches Afghan women in a village in the Baghran valley, as U.S. forces moved northward village by village, house by house carrying out searches, confiscating items, going through houses and personal belongings, February 24, 2003 [A.P. photo, Arraon Favila].

Photo 130 A U.S. Special Forces officer, identified only as Captain In what is a daily, unwelcome event across Afghanistan, two U.S. Special Forces raid a Mark, left, presents northern alliance commander Gen. home, September 5, 2002 [A.F.P. photo]. Rashid Dostum, right, with a plaque, at a ceremony at a residence outside Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2001. Dostum Wednesday bid farewell to American special forces troops who joined his fighters in the battle to seize this city from the Taliban [source: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/Chapandaz ]. Very strong evidence has been presented that U.S. Special Forces knew about and were present when 1000's of Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners were executed on their way to Sheberghen prison.

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U.S. Special Forces soldier 'Bones' gallops through Kunduz, site of a major battle in late November 2001. The 2nd Group of the 19th Special Forces group operates out of a mud-walled house in the city of Kunduz [photo Getty Images/Scott Nelson].

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Photo 132 Photo 133 Karzai vists his master, Bush, in Washington D.C. on Feb. 27, 2003 [to beg for more $$$'s]. Karzai has dutifully served as a Bush echo box since being installed A young boy injured by shrapnel in the US attack upon a wedding in Kabul in Dec. 2001. The faithful puppet, Karzai, recently declared his party in Kakarak, July 1, 2002. suppport of the U.S. war plan against Iraq. Karzai is utterly without shame surrounds himself with US Special Forces, excuses US bombings [whether of the Kakarak wedding party or the recent Baghran valley bombings], obediantly pays back an $11mn debt to the World Bank [when he claims to have no funds], and recently said to an Indian female reporter in Delhi "...in my country, women don't ask questions."

Photo 135 A student in the beauty school established in mid-2002 in Kabul on premises of the Afghan Women's Ministry, part of the lipstick Photo 134 liberation of Kabul's westernized upper middle class. This is pointed to as the much heralded "liberation of Afghan women" in the a member of the 82nd Airborne after "air Assaulting" into the village of Kalata in western press. Cosmetics were provided free by Revlon, MAX, etc. the Baghni valley on Sunday, March 2nd, "secures a Taliban" [AP photo/US [AP photo, Suzanne Plunkett]. Army handout photo, Jim Warner].

Photo 137 On October 11, 2001, the A.P. distributed this photo of a bomb destined for Afghanistan on a fighter plane on the U.S.S. Enterprise. The bomb is being prepared by a crewman. The message, "Highjack This Fags," is typical of the homophobia that [still] exists in the U.S. military - a fine example of the intolerance of those allegedly fighting another intolerance. The inscription correlates nicely with the blatant exhibition of western female bodies - to boost the troops' morale - shown in other pictures above [A.P. photo/Jockel Finck]. Gay & Lesbian activists called the incident "incredible and unbelievable." In Dec. 1998, during Operation Desert Fox against Iraq, a 2'000 lb GBU-24 laserguided bomb destined for Iraq, also aboard the USS Enterprise, was inscribed with "Here's a Ramadan present from Chad Rickenburg." Et plus ca change......... Photo 136

A weapon loader interacting with big JDAM bombs [from Lockheed Martin's journal, Code One 12/02]

Photo 138 Saifullah, a village elder in the village of Lejay in the Baghran valley, Afghanistan, said American soldiers had ordered elders to raise their arms and then handcuffed and detained them on the first day [February 11, 2003] of the U.S. military operation in the village. In the black turban at left is Shaista Gul, whose shepherd brother, Anar Gul, was killed by American bombing [photo Hiromi Yasui for the New York Times 3/5/03]

Photo 139 Nasir Ali prepares tea in his stall on the Afghan-Pakistani border at Chaman, on March 9, 2003, in front of wall posters of Osama Bin Laden [AP photo, K.M. Chaudary].

Photo 140 Bridges which were bombed as the Taliban fled southward after defeats in Mazar and Kunduz [photo by Knightsbridge of the United Kingdom]

Photo 141 The U.S. 37th Transportation squad maintains a Predator drone at the Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait. Note the sports trophy and the flag in the hangar [October 2001].

A man drives a tractor (that is pulling a water tank) decorated with a poster of bin Laden in Chaman township near Peshawar, Pakistan, on March 10, 2003 [Reuters photo by Akram Shahid]

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Photo 142 Crater of a U.S. outside Kabul. People of nearby village live in these tents due to unexploded cluster bombs in their village. Children said this U.S. [precision ??] bomb landed in their soccer field [photo by Peacefultomorrows].

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Traffic jam on Kabul's Kah Froshi Street. While on a state visit to India in Feb. 2003, Karzai proclaimed a new insight upon the meaning of economic development: Afghanistan is now experiencing prosperity because some streets of Kabul are snarled by traffic. Thus, spoketh the one-time Gucci guerrilla from Peshawar [Karzai was so named by the foreign press corps in Peshawar during the 1980s] [photo by Jack Gruber, USA Today]

Photo 143 Scene of occupied Afghanistan. A U.S. patrol in the city Khost on March 10, 2003 [AP photo, Wang Lei]. The following day, a U.S. Special Forces patrol was attacked on the road between Khost and Gardez.

Scene of occupied Afghanistan. A U.S. patrol in the city Khost on March 10, 2003 [AP photo, Wang Lei]. The following day, a U.S. Special Forces patrol was attacked on the road between Khost and Gardez.

Photo 145 Two Afghan boys watch a young girl collecting garbage to burn in her shelter to stay warm in Kabul. Karzai extolled Kabul's traffic jams, beauty classes for women take place in the premises of the Ministry for Afghan Women, and this week, Afghanistan joined the world of cyberspace with its 'af' code - an event widely noted in the US corporate press [ AP photo, Kamram Jebreili].

Photo 146 Photo 146 The return of the 'necktie Afghans' to Kabul has aroused increasing resentment. These persons who spent the last 1020 years in comfortable exile have now returned and populate the upper echelons of Kabuli society. For example, the Melbourne [Australia]-based firm, Moby Capital Partners Pty. Ltd., opened its office in April 2002 in Wazir Akbar Khan. The photo shows the US-puppet, Karzai, fittingly under a chandelier, surrounded by two senior members of Moby Capital in September 2002. The two had established very close ties with the Northern Alliance during the 1990s [source: http://www.mobycapital.com.au/photogallery1.html ]

Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne raid houses and villages in Baghran Valley, as part of Operation Viper, in March 2003. Such break-ins into private spaces where women and children live, arouse serious hostility amongst conservative Afghan muslims [source" Spc. Preston Cheeks, at http://www.defendamerica.mil/photoessays/march2003/p030 303a8.html

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At 1 A.M. on the night of December 20/21, 1989, U.S. air and ground forces struck Panama. The poor neighborhood of El Chorrillo in Panama City, populated by Blacks, located near to the headquarters of the Panamanian Defense Forces, was bombarded and leveled by air and ground fire. In twelve hours, 442 explosions were recorded. The air attack was carried out by AC-130s, F-117s, and attack helicopters. Again, the 'precision' strikes by U.S. forces killed between 1'500 - 3'000 innocent civilians. Fifteen mass graves dug by U.S. forces were later uncovered. The photos above show El Chorrilo on the 'day after' the .S. invasion. After the invasion, 18'000 Panamanians were left without homes [10'000 from El Chorrillo].