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U.S. Jets Hit Taliban Front Lines
Sunday, October 28 2001
The Associated Press

JOM QADAM, Afghanistan -- AP
In what witnesses called the heaviest such strikes of the air campaign, U.S. warplanes staged a daylong assault yesterday on Taliban front lines in the north of Afghanistan.

However, Britain’s Sky News television reported one of the U.S. missiles went awry and struck a village behind anti-Taliban opposition lines. A family of 10 was missing, and 20 people, all but one civilians, were injured, Sky News reported.

Kate Rowlands, program coordinator of the Italian-run Emergency hospital in nearby Anawa, confirmed that there had been injuries in the attack but refused to give details.

In Washington, Pentagon spokesmen said they had no information on the Sky News report.

Rebels confronting Taliban troops north of the capital, Kabul, have been complaining publicly that the U.S. airstrikes weren’t doing enough to advance their cause. It wasn’t known if yesterday’s raids were in response to that, but an opposition spokesman said he was pleased with the day’s raids.
(More: Columbia, Missouri, Tribune Online News Source)
2001 © The Associated Press.

Dan