KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - In the biggest daylight raids so far, U.S. jets pounded targets around Afghanistan's capital on Monday and attacked a military headquarters and suspected terrorist training camp near the eastern city of Jalalabad.Daylight raids opened with jets streaking across the dawn sky over Kabul, striking in the area of the airport and a military base. (Read photo caption below) Throughout the day, wave after wave of bombers, some too high to be heard in the streets below, pounded suspected military targets in the northwest of the capital.
In Afghanistan's east, a lone jet bombed the western outskirts of Jalalabad as shoppers went about their errands at an open market in the city center.
Planes returned later and struck a military headquarters near the Jalalabad airport, the bin Laden training camp at Tora-Bora and a third target near the village of Karam. The Taliban say up to 200 people were killed when U.S. jets hit homes in Karam last week.
Taliban soldiers patrolled Jalalabad with rocket launchers and assault rifles during the raids.
``The Taliban just laugh at these bombs,'' said Mufti Yousuf, a Taliban envoy accompanying international journalists to Jalalabad. ``It is nothing. It makes no difference.''
Kabul hospitals were without electricity overnight, since the Taliban switch off the power during raids. Doctors said relatives were taking patients home and added they were unable to care for premature babies without electricity for the incubators.
The Taliban escorted The Associated Press and other journalists to Karam and Jalalabad over the weekend for a first look inside Afghanistan since the U.S.-led strikes started.
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An F-14 takes off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in the Arabian Sea, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001. The USS Enterprise is one of the ships involved in the attacks in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck)