Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:50:46 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200110261850.OAA07643@mattababy.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
To: president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: stop bombing Red Cross facilities

Your bombing campaign targeting Red Cross facilities in Afghanistan is an
affront to human decency and must stop.  You have now twice bombed Red Cross
warehouses in Kabul.  According to reports by the Associated Press, these aid
facilities had been clearly marked with large red crosses on their roofs.  In
addition to this direct damage, your bombing campaign is taking an even greater
toll in indirect casualties: because food supply trucks cannot get through to
Afghanistan, millions of Afghan civilians are at risk of starvation.  Christian
Aid and other humanitarian groups have repeatedly called for a cessation or at
least a pause in the bombing campaign in order to allow food trucks through 
before the winter begins.  I urge you to heed that call.

Matthew Belmonte