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US continues whacking Taliban front lines
U.S. warplanes over Afghanistan are pounding Taliban front-line troops with increasing frequency and to devastating effect, as forces of the Islamic regime move into the open to escape strikes on their hideaways. At the same time, thousands of armed volunteers from Pakistan awaited the signal from their religious leader to cross the border into Afghanistan and join the Taliban in the fight against the United States. Rumsfeld's televised comments were the clearest indication so far that the bombing campaign, directed initially at mostly unoccupied military targets, is now aimed primarily at hitting soldiers on the move. But even as Rumsfeld spoke, reports emerged that errant U.S. airstrikes had killed more than a dozen civilians in the Afghan capital, Kabul, one day after other strikes went astray and landed in two hamlets north of the city. Rumsfeld defended the casualty figures as minimal and said some of the victims might have been killed by Taliban or opposition Northern Alliance fire. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-10-28 |
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