Thursday, May 06, 2004

No Soup for You

Apparently the US has an aid for information policy in Afghanistan:


Pentagon forced to withdraw leaflet linking aid to information on Taliban

The US-led coalition in Afghanistan has distributed leaflets calling on people to provide information on al-Qaida and the Taliban or face losing humanitarian aid.

The move has outraged aid organisations who said their work is independent of the military and it was despicable to pretend otherwise.

Medecins Sans Frontieres, the international medical charity which passed the leaflets to the Guardian, said the threat endangered aid workers. Fourteen aid workers were killed in Afghanistan last year and 11 so far this year.

I guess it's an improvement from the previous policy, which led to the popular reality television game that swept Afghanistan: THINK FAST: Bomb or Food?