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| U.S.-led Forces Launch Heavy Attacks on Kandahar |
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THU, OCT 11, 2001
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U.S.-led forces launched heavy airstrikes against the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Thursday morning, the latest of a series of raids since Sunday, according to news reaching Islamabad from Kabul.
The ruling Taliban of Afghanistan said 18 people were killed and many more hurt in the raids. It also said that 10 people were killed in strikes early Thursday on the eastern city of Jalalabad None of the claims could be independently verified.
This morning attacks on Kandahar, the Taliban's home base, came after a night of the heaviest bombardment yet of Kabul, the capital.
Wednesday night and early Thursday, U.S. jets pounded Kabul and explosions rocked areas around the city where are a Taliban military academy, artillery units and training camps.
The Taliban gunners returned fire with anti-aircraft weapons.
U.S.-led forces started airstrikes against Afghanistan Sunday evening and began daylight raids Tuesday.
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