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"U.S. Is Targeting Civilians"; Kite Flying in Kandahar
Thursday, November 1, 2001
Media Research

“Nobody threatened us in any way.” They don’t have to. ABC News is doing just what they want.

"We expected a completely joyless, rigid society," ABC’s Dan Harris told Peter Jennings via videophone from Taliban-controlled Kandahar before marveling at how "today, in fact, we saw a young boy flying a kite."

In stories aired on both Wednesday’s World News Tonight and Good Morning America, Harris conceded over video of destroyed buildings, that the Taliban brought him in because, as he admitted on GMA, "they have one single, unerring goal which is to show that civilian casualties are mounting that the U.S. is responsible for. They hope, of course, that undermines support in the West and among Muslim countries that have allied themselves with the West." On World News Tonight, he referred to "their case that indiscriminate U.S. bombing has killed hundreds of civilians." While he also noted that "many reporters were skeptical" of the Taliban claims, he nonetheless asserted: "The chief doctor says the U.S. is targeting civilians."

Referring to a top military official, Harris passed along how "he said the air strikes had unified the Taliban and that only 15 of his men had been killed."

Asked by Peter Jennings if "they in any way tried to guide your news coverage?", Harris assured him: "Nobody is checking our scripts. Nobody is standing here as I do this discussion with you."
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