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Consistently Inconsistent: Rhetoric Meets Reality in the War on Terrorism - "Even though civilian deaths have not been the deliberate goal of the current bombing - as they were for the attackers of 9/11 - the end result has been a distinction without a difference. Dead is dead, and when ones actions have entirely foreseeable consequences, it is little more than a precious and empty platitude to argue that those consequences were merely accidental." Tim Wise, at ZNET, November 15, 2001

Afghanistan Casualties - A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting By Professor Marc W. Herold

Why a Higher Rate of Civilian Bombing Casualties – An analyses and report by the Project on Defense Alternatives why the civilian casualty rate in Afghanistan is four times greater than the Kosovo bombing campaign.

Bombs are tools of error as well as terror – An opinion article by Ted Rall in Alternet. “In a conventional ground war, non-combatants can often flee in order to escape battles. They can become refugees. They can take cover until the fighting moves on. Innocents die, but infinitely fewer than in the holocaust that is unleashed by a carpet-bombing. Satellite intelligence and precision guidance systems can deliver a bomb to its target, but only an experienced soldier on the ground can tell if that bomb is hitting a war council or a wedding party.”

Civilian Casualties Not News - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) information that the news media are not providing balanced reporting on civilian casualties.