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A doctor at Jalalabad's Sihnat Amma hospital attends to Noormohammad,
12, who was seriously injured in what locals said was a U.S. bombing raid
on his village of Kama Ado in the Agam area of the Nangarhar province,
Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001. The U.S. military denied the claim,
saying the bombing "did not happen." (AP Photo/Yola Monakhov)
**MANDATORY CREDIT YOLA MONAKHOV**
Islamuddin wipes his tears away at Emergency hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan
on Friday, Nov. 23, 2001. The boy says he injured both hands when the
mortar shell he was playing with exploded. Emergency is an Italian philanthropic
group which provides hospitals in war-torn countries. (AP Photo/Laura
Rauch)
Akhtsr Muhammad, 50, from Herat, Afghanistan, recovers in a hospital in
Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001. Akhtsr claimed he was injured
in a recent bombing raid near Herat. Many of the injured from the fighting
in Afghanistan are being brought to hospital on the Pakistan border as
there is little in the way of medical treatment in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/M
Arshad Butt)
Said Hassan sits in the recovery room of Sihnat Amma hospital in Jalalabad,
Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 1. 2001, next to his nephew Noormohammad.
Hassan says his nephew was seriously injured and lost both of his parents
in a U.S. bombing raid on his village of Kama Ado. The U.S. military denied
the claim, saying the bombing "did not happen." (AP Photo/ Yola
Monakhov) **MANDATORY CREDIT YOLA MONAKHOV**
Ahmad, a nurse at at Jalalabad's Public Health Hospital, attends to Hazrat
Hussein, left, and Abdul Ghafar, right, both of whom local official claim
were injured in a U.S. bombing raid in Nangarhar province, about 25 kilometers
(15 miles) south of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The U.S. military said it
has no evidence any of its airstrikes hit civilians. (AP Photo/Yola Monakhov)
Afghan refugee Gul Agha, who says he was injured in a U.S. air strike
in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar, has his wounds redressed in a
Quetta, Pakistan hospital on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001. Refugees continue
to crowd the Pakistan border as U.S. forces have turned their attention
to the South of Afghanistan, establishing an airbase near the Taliban
stronghold of Kandahar. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Afghan refugee Mahmad of Kandahar, Afghanistan lies in a hospital bed
in a ward at Sandeman Hospital in Quetta, Pakistan Monday Dec. 3, 2001.
Mahmad was injured in recent days when his house was hit by a shell killing
all six of his children. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Nickwalli, a twelve-year-old Afghan boy who was wounded after he touched
an unexploded U.S. cluster bomb dropped during aerial bombing on Kabul,
lies on a hospital bed November 22, 2001. The United States has come under
criticism from human rights groups for using cluster bombs. Human Rights
group Amnesty International has said about five percent of the cluster
bombs fail to explode on impact, exposing civilians to a high risk of
injury for years to come. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Nik Wali, a 10-year-old boy wounded in an air raid in Afghanistan, lies
unconscious in his bed at a hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul, November
9, 2001. Wali's uncle told Reuters on Friday that the boy was injured
while traveling in a car to the south of Kabul when a bomb exploded killing,
eight passengers and leaving Nik the only survivor. (Sayed Salahuddin/Reuters)
Young Afghan boy wounded in Kunduz lies in a hospital ward in Taloqan,
November 26, 2001. The Northern Alliance said on Monday its forces had
seized the city of Kunduz, the last bastion of the Taliban and their foreign
comrades in northern Afghanistan, after a two-week siege. REUTERS/Gleb
Garanich
Yaqub Khan, 65, who said he was injured during U.S. air strike in Khost
province in eastern Afghanistan, rests in a hospital in Peshawar, December
23, 2001. New Western-backed Afghan leader Hamid Karzai gathered his interim
cabinet for a meeting which discussed how to restore security to a country
torn by war for more than two decades. The subject was timely. After U.S.
planes bombed a convoy which witnesses said was carrying tribal elders
to Karzai's inauguration, killing up to 60 people, a furious local leader
warned that any more lethal military mistakes would ignite an uprising.
(Syed Haider Shah/Reuters)
A young Afghan boy who lost a leg in a US bombing raid on Kandahar lies
in a Quetta hospital, Sunday, December 9, 2001. Afghanistan's leader-in-waiting,
Hamid Karzai, is in Kandahar in a bid to resolve a dispute between local
warring factions that is theatening to plunge the city back into pre-Taliban
chaos. (AFP Photo/John Macdougall)
Residents of Kabul, Afghanistan remove belongings from a house damaged
from bombardment Sunday, Oct. 21, 2001. Allied bombing continued Sunday
for the15th straight day in Afghanistan for the harboring of suspected
terrorist Osama bin Laden. Eight civilians, including four children were
allegedly killed when a bomb hit the house. (AP Photo/Amir Shah)
Villagers try to show the injuries that 7-year-old Rahmat Ullah suffered
during the U.S. bombing campaign against the Taliban regime in the village
of Haji Mohammad Khan Kalacha, Afghanistan near the Kandahar airport on
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002. Due to its proximity to the airport, this village
was hit during U.S. bombing raids and dozens of unexploded bombs remain
in the fields. Rahmat Ullah was in a tractor when they were bombed and
six people were killed. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
An unexploded bomb which was dropped during the U.S. bombing campaign
against the Taliban regime lies in a field of pomegranate trees in the
village of Haji Mohhamad Khan Kalacha, Afghanistan, near the Kandahar
airport on Friday, Jan. 25, 2002. Villagers complained that several of
their animals were killed due to unexploded ordnances and they are afraid
to go out to work in their fields. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
FILE - Residents from a nearby village sift through debris near unexploded
ordnance, top left, Oct. 14, 2001, in the village of Karam, some 50 kilometers
(30 miles), west of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The war has been winding down
in Afghanistan in recent weeks, but a new generation of unexploded ordnance
will be its deadly legacy, killing and maiming civilians in a nation where
amputees already are a common sight. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)
FILE - Foreign journalists brought to the Afghan village of Karam Oct.14,
2001, by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, are shown what appears to be unexploded
ordnance in this image made from television. "It depends on what
they land on," explained Caleb Rossiter, defense analyst for the
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. "These bomblets are light
like Coke cans and so at the last minute, a stiff wind could blow them
sideways. The nose won't hit the ground, and it's the impact of the nose
that makes itgo off." (AP Photo/APTN, File) TV OUT
Afghan refugee boy Feda Mohammed, 8, cries as he sits with his family
after the funeral of his less than a year-old brother Manzelah in the
Mirqasimjan refugee camp, 15 km (9 miles) northwest of Mazar-e-Sharif,
in northern Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2002. The camp is one of hundreds
of places across Afghanistan where villagers have gathered after fleeing
warfare and extreme poverty. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Afghan refugee Rahmatullah, 50, cries beside the wrapped in a brown shawl
body of Manzelah, his less than a year-old son, during a funeral in the
Mirqasimjan refugee camp, 15 km (9 miles) northwest of Mazar-e-Sharif,
in northern Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2002. The camp is one of hundreds
of places across Afghanistan where villagers have gathered after fleeing
warfare and extreme poverty. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A police officer beats back a crowd with a rubber hose as they line up
for food at a World Food Program distribution center in Kabul, Afghanistan
Thursday, Dec. 27, 2001. Thousands of Afghans are supplied with wheat
through the program. (AP Photo/CP, Kevin Frayer)
A destroyed mosque inside a military garrison which was used by Taliban
and Al-Qaeda in Jalalabad, November 18, 2001. A local guard said that
when the mosque was hit at least 15 Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters were
killed while praying. REUTERS/Aziz Haidari
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