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Sohrab Khan forces control half of Tora Bora
Anti-Taliban commander Hazrat Ali said U.S. aircraft kept up air strikes on targets in the Tora Bora region, about 35 miles south of Jalalabad. "We have taken some areas which they (bin Laden's men) left around Tora Bora," he reported from Jalalabad. "They pulled out from these areas without a fight." Sohrab Khan said his forces controlled half of the mountainous region around Tora Bora. Frontier Post reports al Qaida forces manning Tora Bara have twenty Russian-made Uragan missiles. Uragan is a 220 mm multiple-launched rocket. Each launcher fires up to 16 of the rockets at a time, with a payload of 90 kg of high explosive. (20 of the beasts would be enough for one salvo, with four left over.) Al Qaida have also taken with them "thousands of pressure cookers and thousands tonnes of urea fertiliser" from Jalalabad to make their own explosives.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-12-05 |
