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Air Force Delivers Food Rations in High Altitude Afghan Drops
U S and British planes drop culturally neutral rations in northern Afghanistan as part of a wider air campaign. Each 2,200 calorie packet costs four dollars and includes no meat. Over two days the effort delivered more than 37 tons to remote areas while planes fly high to avoid Taliban fire. The mission follows 1993 rations development and has supported 20 countries including Bosnia Iraq and Haiti.
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Knight Ridder
Washington
U.S. Air Force
Afghanistan
U.S
United States
Bosnia
Iraq
Cuba
Rwanda
Haiti
Quetta
Pakistan
Osama bin Laden
America
Taliban
U.N. Children’s Fund
Civil Hospital
Quetta, and Gunfire Echoed Across the Old City
Chaudary Umedali
Imdad
Maulana
Noor Mohammed
Serena Hotel
Amjad Pervaiz
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FARC
John Pike
GlobalSecurity.org
al-Qaida