U.S. Sends Military Help to Pakistan: ; Construction, M*a*S*H Units to Aid Quake Victims
Sunday Gazette-Mail › October 31, 2005
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - The United States has sent military helicopters, an Army field hospital and a construction battalion to earthquake-stricken Pakistan - a gesture that has irked Islamic hard- liners but may help improve Washington's battered image in the Muslim world after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"When they do something against Muslims, we condemn them. Now as they are helping us, we should appreciate them," said Yar Mohammed, 48, a farmer in Muzaffarabad, the devastated capital of Pakistan's portion of the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Sends Military Help to Pakistan: ; Construction, M*a*S*H Units to Aid Quake Victims
"We are facing hard times, and they are helping us."
That help started a day after the 7.6-magnitude quake struck Oct. 8, killing an estimated 80,000 people and leaving more than ...See the full content of this document
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