Daylight Air Raid on Kabul

01/05/2001| IslamWeb

KABUL (Reuters) - Jets swooped over a foggy post-dawn Kabul on Wednesday, causing five or six powerful explosions in the center of the Afghan capital in the wake of a series of overnight raids, witnesses said. (Read photo caption below) ``There were five to six bombs, the planes disappeared quickly. I can't see where they landed because it's quite foggy and hazy but the explosions were quite strong and powerful,'' one witness said.
``Usually when planes come they take five to 10 minutes to drop their bombs, but this time they came, dropped and were gone, there was little time for anti-aircraft gunners to find them,'' he added.
U.S.-led forces mounted three raids on the capital overnight. During heavy daylight raids on Tuesday, a bomb hit a warehouse in Kabul belonging to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
PHOTO CAPTION:
Dozens of U.S. warplanes bombed Taliban troops and weapons in Afghanistan October 16, 2001 and the Pentagon unleashed two AC-130 'Spectre' flying gunships in a rapidly-intensifying air campaign, defense officials said. A U.S. Air Force AC-130H is seen in this undated Air Force file photo. (USAF via Reuters)