The American Red Cross is one of more than 170 national Red Cross or Red Crescent societies. These national societies, which handle domestic disasters, are independent but are "recognized" by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The ICRC, which is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, is the founding body of the Red Cross. All its officers and most of its field workers are Swiss. The ICRC conducts the international war-relief operations that have made the Red Cross so justly famous, including prisoner visits, humanitarian aid, and the like. It is the ICRC that just withdrew from Afghanistan because the Taliban would not guarantee its safety, and it is ICRC warehouses that the United States has now bombed twice "by accident." The ICRC and the national societies, along with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, compose the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The members send delegates to a quadrennial internation—oh, forget it.