More Civilians Killed as US-Led Campaign Enters Fourth Week

The US-led campaign against Afghanistan's Taliban regime suffered a fresh setback Sunday when at least 10 civilians were killed after a bomb hit three houses in Kabul, reports said.

Eight members of one family -- a father, mother and their three sons and three daughters -- were among the dead when a bomb hit three houses in the Afghan capital, an AFP report quoted witnesses as saying.

Ahib Dad, a 45-year-old father-of-four, held his dead baby son in his arms and wept uncontrollably at the scene of the attack.

"I heard the sound of the plane and I came out to see which way it was going. Suddenly it bombed our home. I lost two of my children," he said.

One grieving old man added: "These are infidels, they want to eliminate Muslims and Islam. There was nothing to be bombed in this house."

Despite the rising civilian death toll and the campaign entering its fourth week, U.S. and British officials insisted that the military assault had been a success and signaled it would continue for the long haul, the report said.

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