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| B2's join the bombing |
| 2001-10-09 |
On Monday, B-2 stealth bombers flying from the United States joined carrier-based aircraft to strike targets in Afghanistan as anti-American demonstrations began to roil Muslim capitals and Bush administration officials stepped up planning to oust the Afghan regime. Monday's bombing campaign sent aloft only about half the planes that President Bush ordered launched on Sunday in the first military response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. American warships loosed Tomahawk cruise missiles in blazes of light over the Arabian Sea, and B-1 bombers flew sorties from the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The United Nations said today that four of its workers were killed and four others were injured near Kabul in the bombing by the United States against Afghanistan. It was the first independent report of civilian deaths resulting from the United States-led military action since the attacks began on Sunday. At a news conference in Islamabad, the Pakistan capital, a spokeswoman for the United Nations said that the workers were killed when a missile destroyed a building housing Afghan Technical Consultancy, the agency that oversees mine clearing operations in Afghanistan. The building is several miles east of Kabul, the Afghanistan capital. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |