11.   But officials of the rebel Northern Alliance fear that an influx of refugees from nearby Taliban-controlled territory could overwhelm it and other aid efforts.

12.   Connected by rail and road to Uzbekistan, Hairatan is supposed to be the jumping-off point for a major aid effort for all of northern Afghanistan.

13.   Donors competed for leadership of the aid effort, and lack of coordination in the field led to duplication between projects offered separately by individual countries.

14.   Every attack delays or derails elaborate aid efforts.

15.   For Cuba, the principal benefit of such aid efforts today is not that they advance a geopolitical strategy.

16.   Hardly an apartment here is intact, posing a major challenge to Western aid efforts.

17.   However, those aid efforts have come under attack from the Taliban.

18.   If sanctions are imposed, De Mul said that he did not expect them to hurt the aid effort.

19.   In Somalia, for example, the aid effort has sustained the various faction leaders, Goethals said.

20.   In the Trenton area, the victims and their families are receiving attention and good wishes, and a national aid effort could follow, Thorbahn said.