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Jets Target Taliban Compound; DoD Awaits Bomb Damage Assessment

By Rudi Williams

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2001 -- DoD is still awaiting Air Force bomb damage assessments following attacks on two compounds southeast of
Kandahar yesterday where Taliban and Al Qaeda senior leaders were believed to be, DoD spokesperson Victoria "Torie" Clarke told reporters during a
morning Pentagon press briefing.

"We don't have names, a sense of exactly who was in there or any sense that Omar (Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar) was there," Clarke said.

However, Central Command officials had said earlier that Omar and his chief aides were known to frequent the targeted building. Clarke said video
footage indicated the strike was effective in terms of the damage done to the building.

Acknowledging 750 to 800 Marines are on the ground in Afghanistan, Clarke said the influx would continue. She said it isn't clear what role the Marine
Cobra gunships played in the attack on an armored column of 15 Taliban vehicles near the Marine base, about 55 miles southwest of Kandahar.

Clarke pointed out that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Army Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S.- led campaign in Afghanistan,
have underscored that "there are still a lot things going on in that country, including pockets of resistance and counterattacks in different places."

More than 90 percent of yesterday's strikes were against emerging targets, with activities centering around Kandahar, Jalalabad and south of Kunduz,
Clarke said. Some 34,440 humanitarian rations were dropped yesterday, mostly near Mazar-e Sharif.

"We continued dropping leaflets, mostly around Jalalabad and Kunduz and also continued Commando Solo broadcasts," she told reporters.

Very cool. IN the strike on the leadrship location, you can actually see the first two bombs falling in the air towards the target. Initial explosions. Then some secondaries, then another bomb 'misses' by a lot-- or is that a secondary popping out the end of a ventilation duct????

Very cool. IN the strike on the leadrship location, you can actually see the first two bombs falling in the air towards the target. Initial explosions. Then some secondaries, then another bomb 'misses' by a lot-- or is that a secondary popping out the end of a ventilation duct????

we regret the double post....

I absolutely love these posts. Thanks for putting them up for us. Can you please add me to your ping list?

Thanks in advance,

Lormand

You gotta stop this "you gotta see this" stuff every day....IT ALL LOOKS THE SAME after a couple times.

A lot of black triangles not around Kandahar, but Jalalabad and Khost. Is that where OBL is???

Sorry man, I disagree. I like seeing photographs of little craters where buildings used to be, and Marines in fighting holes.

then another bomb 'misses' by a lot-- or is that a secondary popping out the end of a ventilation duct????

Looks to me like a separate target. There are structures at both locations, as best as I can tell from the video. Once again, great video!!!

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"They blowed up good."

"They blowed up REAL good!"

Thank you

Odd--the more I watch, the more my eyes are trained to identify the differences in the videos.

Of course, you are free to ignore these posts that so many of us look forward to each day.

Rather incredible to see the bombs falling!

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Somebody explain the photo of that Marine standing right next to the mortar as he fires off a round. Is that how it's done?

Never been there, never done that.

Just incredulous...

It's Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok! I love it!

What a barren landscape, but excellent photos.

Got to include this one:

A Grand Canyon Afghanistan
	The canyon of the Kabul River, up to 5000-6000 feet in depth, east of the city of Kabul. It is traversed by a spectacular, Russian-built highway. This is one of many impressive landforms in the country, but as yet there are no significant national parks.