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U.S. Says It Can Now Fly at Will Over Afghanistan
Tuesday, October 9, 2001
(2:06 PM ET)
Reuters

"Not a lot is left of their ... land-based communications system."

WASHINGTON -- Reuters
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday that attacks against targets in Afghanistan had damaged air defenses to the point that raids could now be flown at will and around the clock.

"We've struck several terrorist training camps, we've damaged most of the airfields -- I believe all but one, as well as their anti-aircraft radars and launchers," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon briefing.

"With the success of previous raids, we believe we are now able to carry out strikes more or less around the clock, as we wish," said Rumsfeld, as U.S. forces hit targets of the ruling Taliban and the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, accused of carrying out the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
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