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| Afghanistan |
| Fresh assaults on Kabul |
| 2001-10-08 |
The fresh assault at 6:50 a.m. rattled windows in the capital and awakened sleeping residents who had passed a quiet night after a second wave of U.S. strikes Monday evening. Heavy bursts of anti-aircraft fire had ripped the night sky over a darkened Kabul Monday night, and the Taliban militia responded to the second U.S. barrage by cutting power and ordering residents to shutter themselves indoors. At least three bomb explosions had reverberated through the capital - one each in the eastern, western and northern sections of the city. A high-flying plane could be seen dropping flares before the detonations. Taliban gunners responded with a crackle of fire into the skies over the city. Targets in Monday's raids included areas around the capital, the Taliban's home base of Kandahar, and Afghanistan's north, where an opposition northern alliance is battling the Taliban, the Islamic movement that controls nearly all of Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |