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Pentagon Confirms Three U.S. Bombs Missed Their Targets
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
(3:21 PM ET)
By Susanne M. Schafer / The Associated Press

“We're starting to work on some Taliban targets that are arrayed out in the field against folks that we would like to help, and that's what we're about,” Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

WASHINGTON -- AP
Three U.S. bombs went astray in Afghanistan over the weekend, landing in a civilian neighborhood near Kabul and near a senior citizens' center in Herat, Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said Tuesday.

A helicopter trying to recover the remains of another U.S. helicopter that crashed Friday night was shot at while refueling at an airfield in Pakistan Saturday, Clarke said. No U.S. forces were hurt in that incident, Clarke said.

An F-14 attack plane dropped two 500-pound bombs on a residential area northwest of Kabul on Saturday while aiming at military vehicles a half-mile away, Clarke said. She said the military did not have any information on casualties caused by those bombs.

On Sunday, an F/A-18 dropped a 1,000-pound bomb near a senior citizens' home in the northwestern Afghan city of Herat, Clarke said. The bomb landed in a field between the home and a military vehicle storage facility, she said. The two buildings are 300 feet apart.
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