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| Latest Developments Related to U.S. Strikes in Afghanistan |
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MON, OCT 15, 2001
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The following are latest developments related to U.S. strikes in Afghanistan.
-- U.S. and British warplanes on Saturday raided a command-and- control system in southern Iraq "in response to Iraqi hostile threats and acts against coalition aircrews," the U.S. Central Command said.
"Coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons today to strike a command-and-control system in southern Iraq at approximately 8:30 am EDT (1230 GMT)," the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
-- U.S. jets raided the eastern city of Jalalabad early on Sunday (local time), pounding the curfew-bound town with several bombs, some aimed at military bases, reports reaching here said.
The first strikes in the bombardment hit an army installation in the east of the city, injuring at least six people, the private Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said.
-- The number of people missing or dead at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York after the terrorist attacks fell to 4,688, according to the latest information from city authorities on Saturday.
A total of 445 bodies have been recovered, of whom 388 have been identified.
-- White House Saturday dismissed as "propaganda" the latest threat by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group to attack U.S. and British interests.
"The White House sees it as just more propaganda," White House spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise said in response to the new threat from al Qaeda.
Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network Saturday threatened to wage more suicide attacks against the U.S. and Britain to counter the U. S. Middle East policy and its military strikes against Afghanistan.
-- Five more Americans have been tested positive for the deadly anthrax, and they are all colleagues of a photo editor who died of the inhaled form of the disease, according to local media reports Saturday.
The five persons, who work with Boca Raton, Florida-based tabloid The Sun, a newspaper published by American Media Inc., were tested positive for exposure to anthrax, Gerald Mckelvey, a spokesman for the company, said Saturday.
-- U.S.-led forces missed the military target by 1.5 miles in Kabul and killed four civilians in the airstrikes early Sunday, according to news reports from Kabul, the Afghan capital.
Marking the start of the second week of the U.S.-led airstrikes against Afghanistan since October 7, the Pentagon admitted that a 2,000-pound bomb aimed at a military helicopter had hit a residential area and killed the civilians.
"We regret the loss of any civilian life," the Pentagon said in a statement.
-- U.S. warplanes Sunday morning launched air strikes for the seventh straight day on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, according to reports reaching here from Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
The reports quoted the Taliban Information Ministry as saying that U.S. aircraft had bombed and fired missiles in attacks at Kabul and four cities -- Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar, Jalabad and Kabul.
In a related development, a major part of Kabul's communication links with the rest of world has been seriously disrupted by U.S. bombing campaign which started on October 7.
-- Kuwait announced on Sunday that it has stripped Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the spokesman for Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, of his nationality, the Kuwaiti government said in a statement.
"In the national interest and according to Article 14 of the 1959 nationality law, the council has approved a proposed decree to withdraw Sulaiman Abu Ghaith's nationality," the statement said.
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