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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: How Many Dead? How many civilians have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of U.S.-led bombing on October 7? Journalists and aid workers have limited access to the area, so it’s an admittedly difficult question to answer. But many U.S. media outlets don’t seem to be trying very hard. None of the three major networks’ nightly newscasts are offering even rough tallies of the mounting civilian casualties in Afghanistan. ABC World News Tonight, however, has followed the story somewhat more seriously than either the CBS Evening News or NBC Nightly News, which both regularly frame discussion of civilian deaths in terms of their value in the “propaganda war.” Questions about the legality of those U.S. targeting decisions that led to strikes on civilians were rarely raised on any network. It may be some time before a full accounting is possible, but relief agencies and a few noteworthy news stories do provide information about the scale of the devastation. As a “conservative” estimate, Doctors Without Borders has stated that civilian casualties are already in the hundreds and rising (NPR, 12/6/01). On the high end, a compilation of international press reports by a University of New Hampshire professor suggests there may be over 3,500 civilian deaths (http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm). To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1666 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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