In the summer, nongovernmental organizations circulated images of the cluster bomb to specialists, and specialists in several countries could not pin down a solid identification.
"The white flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is flying over the Want district center, while some policemen of the puppet administration flee toward the provincial capital after slight resistance," said the Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, in a statement to news organizations circulated by e-mail.
From 2000 to 2007, a coalition of appraisal organizations circulated and ultimately delivered to Washington officials a public petition; signed by 11,000 appraisers and including the name and address of each, it charged that lenders were pressuring appraisers to place artificially high prices on properties.
The Ploughshares Fund, a venerable arms-control organization, has circulated a petition urging Obama to take U.S. nuclear missiles off high alert before he leaves office.
In the 36th Ward on the Northwest Side, where the Democratic organization also circulated nominating petitions for Mr. Emanuel, the incumbent alderman, John Rice, was forced into a runoff.
Early in September, Oxfam, the British humanitarian organization, was circulating a petition calling on the United States to "put health before wealth" by supporting relaxation of international patent policies that Oxfam says make vital medicines too expensive for developing countries.
Donors, regulators concluded, contributed money to an out-of-state organization, which circulated funds through a series of other groups and eventually back to California.
Says Elizabeth Sword, executive director of the nonprofit Children's Health Environmental Coalition: "In my view there is sufficient evidence to pique my concern, not only as a parent but as the executive director of this organization, to circulate this information directly to parents in a way that they can then make the healthiest decisions".
News organizations, in circulating the images, blurred out the boy's face.
The declaration, signed by members of grassroots Haitian organizations, was circulated to local press at the end of August 2014.
