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Taliban Claim 200 Dead in Airstrike
Saturday, October 13, 2001
The Associated Press

A demonstrator shouts as a police water cannon is used on Muslim student protesters in front of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday. About 1,000 protested outside of the U.S. embassy to demand an end to U.S.-led military action in Afghanistan.
Photo Credit: The Associated Press.

“We're still digging bodies out of the rubble.”

KABUL, Afghanistan -- AP
The Taliban claimed Friday at least 200 people were killed this week in an airstrike on a village, their largest casualty claim so far in the U.S.-led bombardment of Afghanistan. The report could not immediately be independently verified.

As the air campaign moved into its sixth day, the intensity of strikes were lighter. Warplanes fired a series of missiles before dawn Friday north of Kabul. But there were no immediate reports of attacks near other main cities Friday.

Angry demonstrations broke out in neighboring Pakistan on the first Friday since the start of the air assault. In Kabul, the Afghan capital, the preacher at a central mosque prayed that the United States would suffer the same fate as Afghanistan.

The air strikes were launched after the Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia repeatedly refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, chief suspect in the terror strikes a month ago on the United States.
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