ATTACKS AFGHANISTAN AID

Afghan local residents pick up food packets of U.S. humanitarian aid dropped by U.S. planes, in a field near Khwaja-Bahauddin, an anti-Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2001. Afghanistan's civil war, drought, poverty and human rights abuses have spawned one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze).