1.   And the food packets are manufactured in Texas.

2.   A dozen people waited in the tiny store today to pay for water jugs and rope ladders, chemical toilets and indestructible food packets.

3.   Humanitarian aid groups have warned that children could mistake the bomblets for the yellow food packets dropped by US planes by the hundreds of thousands.

4.   In addition to food packets, the Pentagon also plans to drop leaflets, imploring Afghanis to oppose the Taliban.

5.   Military aircraft dropped food packets to refugees even as they dropped the first bombs.

6.   Pentagon officials say they were particularly sensitive about the ingredients of the food packets being air-dropped throughout the country.

7.   The Pentagon in response said it would change the color of the humanitarian food packets.

8.   The United Nations reported Thursday that two children were killed near Herat when they stepped on mines while running across a field trying to pick up food packets.

9.   The United States has been dropping food packets from the air, and international aid agencies have been sending food in bulk by land.

10.   The United States says airdrops of the food packets are proof of American concern for the welfare of needy Afghans.