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Stories from 2002-01-20

Guant·namo Becoming Terrorist Central

Carlotta Gall | New York Times | January 20, 2002

"In northwestern Afghanistan, tens of thousands of people are on the move, in search of food and greater security. Many had already endured three years of drought and the upheavals of years of war. But when the United States began bombing their country, they abandoned their villages and headed for refugee camps near the city of Herat, swelling the camps to perhaps 200,000 today. Yet the poorest and hungriest still cling to their homes, unable to afford the trip to the camps." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.