| U.S. warplanes bombed a leadership compound near Kandahar, stepping up the pursuit of Osama bin Laden and his Taliban allies. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters of the latest raid was on the compound used by leaders of both the Taliban and al Qaeda, but said he did not know if any central figures were hit. Speculation on FoxNews is that Mullah Omar and some of his senior commanders were in the compound at the time. |