BUREAUCRATIC WRANGLING DELAYS CYCLONE AID
- KALAPARA, Bangladesh (On Assignment)
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Posted by Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
Monday, November 26, 2007 1:56 PM
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Flying Officer Junaid Ashraf stood in front of a stack
of boxes containing high-protein biscuits. Behind him,
soldiers formed a human chain as they rapidly loaded
the boxes into the belly of a giant transport
helicopter.
Junaid and his fellow airmen from the Bangladesh Air
Force are flying missions from dawn to dusk across the
cyclone-affected coastal areas.
"As a human being you are shocked, because the people
are crying, asking for goods," he said. "They don't
have any goods."
We joined one of those missions into the heart of the
disaster zone, flying over a brutalized landscape of
shattered houses and flattened crops. A ferry sat
halfway up the bank of a river, where it had been
thrown by the storm. I imagined a malign giant
stomping across the landscape.
For details please visit the link below:
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/26/480919.aspx
Please also visit following sites:
U.S. aid arrives in beleaguered Bangladesh:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21978697/
Cyclone related photos:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21881079/displaymode/1176/rstry/21978697/
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Kumar Islam
Chicago, Illinois
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