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Pentagon Drops Bombs of All Sizes
Thursday, October 11, 2001
(1:46 AM PT)
By John J. Lumpkin / Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON -- AP
Pick a target, and the military has something to blow it up.

There are laser-guided tank-killers and bunker-busters, cluster bombs that can rip apart columns of soldiers and armored vehicles, old-fashioned "dumb" bombs that, used together, can blast an entire region.

Missiles launched from ships and planes complete the arsenal being used against targets in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon is "dropping the full range of weaponry," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday.
(More: The LA Times News Source)
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