US Launches Heaviest Daylight Strikes on KabulUS warplanes roared over the Afghan capital Kabul early on Tuesday morning as it launched its heaviest daylight strikes so far to flush out Osama bin Laden and punish his Taliban protectors, news reports reaching here said.The warplanes rained down bombs on targets just outside the city while the Taliban fired anti-aircraft fire, the reports added quoting eyewitnesses. The early morning airstrikes followed actions of late Monday evening that saw unusual, successive air activity. Osama bin Laden is the man Washington accuses of masterminding the September 11 suicide hijack attacks that killed more than 5,000 people in the United States. US defence officials said warplanes stepped up daylight strikes on Sunday and Monday's strikes were the heaviest so far of the military offensive that the US-led forces began on October 7. Meanwhile, Taliban's opposition -- the Northern Alliance said on Monday that they had advanced to within kilometers of the airport in the northern Taliban-held city of Mazar-i-Sharif. However, there was no independent verification of the reports. |
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