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Afghans Get Food Program Supplies
Monday, October 01, 2001 (5:51 AM ET)
By Kathy Gannon / The Associated Press

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- AP
The first World Food Program convoy of food arrived Monday for the hungry in the Afghan capital of Kabul, where people fear the potential for a U.S. military strike in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.

Eight trucks carrying 218 tons of wheat* made it to Kabul, said Khalid Mansour, the program's information officer in neighboring Pakistan. The WFP feeds nearly two-thirds of Kabul's 1 million people.

The United Nations has been warning of a humanitarian catastrophe within Afghanistan, a country already ravaged by relentless war and the worst drought in living memory.

The food convoy was the first to reach the city since the terror attacks and the subsequent pullout from Afghanistan of all international United Nations staff.
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Dan
wheat* What I find in print (above) appears to contradict what I “think” I heard on the radio this AM -- but only by a few decimals... Folks, we're there.

Sorry about that.

And may that Grainline flow!!