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Posted on 11/17/2001 3:25:25 PM PST by BunnySlippers

Those lucky enough not to be vaporized by the battering tell their stories with wide eyes and flapping tongues.

They describe the roiling of the earth, as if some subterranean war of angry gods had caused a rumbling quake. They speak of an overwhelming wave of explosions as dozens of bombs from a single airplane carpet a so-called kill box that's typically a half-mile square. They tell of a sustained low roar--not from the bombers themselves, which are too high to hear, but from their massive loads of ordnance. They talk of the hits, first a few bombs, then many more, as plumes of dirt and black smoke rise from a moonscape of craters 25 feet wide. And they murmur less about the soldiers who are obliterated than about those who survive, blood streaming from noses and eardrums torn by the concussions, so dazed and frightened that they often refuse to leave their foxholes--sometimes for days on end.

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Hey bin Laden! We deliver.

4/01 -- Paired B52s hit Deshitiquala

11/2/-1 bombing B52s in Tutakhan (25 mi from Kabul)

10/30/01

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