From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [L-I] US bombs 'up to 140' civilians AFP. 18 November 2001. Up to 140 killed in US air strikes: AIP. ISLAMABAD -- Nearly 140 people, mostly civlians, have been killed by US air strikes on Taliban and suspected terrorist targets in Afghanistan in the past two days, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said on Sunday. The Pakistan-based agency said at least 46 people were killed in bombing raids late Saturday and Sunday morning in and around the Taliban's southern stronghold of Kandahar. AIP said 42 of those died during an intense aerial bombardment of Maywand district, 70 kilometers west of Kandahar city. "Most of the victims were tribal nomads," it said. Several thousand Taliban are believed to be holed up in Kandahar, the Islamic militia's spiritual home. Tribal leaders surrounding the city were making renewed efforts Sunday to negotiate a Taliban withdrawal. Another 93 people were killed in a series of bombing raids on the eastern provinces of Khost and Nangarhar, AIP reported. The death toll in Khost was put at 62, with most of the victims reported to be students at a madrassa, or Islamic seminary, which was bombed on Friday night as they were saying their evening prayers. The US military had acknowledged that a 500-pound laser-guided bomb dropped in Khost had suffered a "guidance malfunction," missed its target and damaged a mosque. Twenty-eight people, including 19 members of one family, were killed when US planes bombarded Zani Khel village, 10 kilometers (six miles) west of Khost city, AIP added. Another 30 people were reported killed Sunday as US planes launched pre-dawn air strikes on Nangarhar. The province's new administrator Qari Abdul Salam told AIP that the strikes targetted Shamshad town, eight kilometers (five miles) from the border with Pakistan. AIP said the jets raided the area before dawn and returned for a second attack when people from the adjoining villages were engaged in rescue operations. Seven people with serious injuries were brought to a hospital run by Pakistan's private Edhi Welfare Trust in Torkham on the Pakistan border, where one died later. "I don't know how many people died but it is likely there are many casualties," said Imtiaz Hussain, administrator of the Edhi Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
