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>U.S. Attacks Taliban Frontline;
Rejects Bin Laden Trial Offer
Monday, October 15, 2001
News Agencies

"America is technologically more advanced," spokesman Suhail Shaheen. "We are not equal to America. The real war starts when ground troops enter Afghanistan."

KABUL, Pakistan
U.S. warplanes pounded Taliban frontline targets Sunday as President George W. Bush rejected the ruling Afghan militia's conditional offer to hand over Osama bin Laden for trial in a neutral country.

With the U.S.-led military onslaught in Afghanistan entering its second week, the latest air strikes focused on troop positions along the Taliban frontline with opposition Northern Alliance forces.

Planes dropped at least three bombs on a Taliban army division and other military installations near Bagram, 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Kabul, the Afghan Islamic Press said.

The Pakistan-based agency also reported air strikes on the airport and an army base in the Taliban southern stronghold of Kandahar.

The attacks were significant given recent Northern Alliance indications that the opposition was not prepared to launch a major offensive unless U.S. forces softened up Taliban positions first.
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