Bombardment at Afghanistan continues

One large American bomb was dropped at the warehouse for the ICRC in the heart of Kabul and resulted in destroying 35% of the stored items and wounding many of its workers. The bombardment also hit a hospital and resulted in killing five patients while other various areas in the capital Kabul and its surrounding were exposed to violent air bombardment also covered Qindhar and Jalal Abaad.

For its part the Afghani opposition forces said they are proceeding towards Mazaar al-Sharif and that it hopes to occupy it during the two coming days. One of the opposition leader said several villages surrounding the airport of the city fell in the hands of his forces, noting that the falling of Mazaar al-Sharif will mean the falling of the districts of Balakh, Samanghan and Qanzar very soon.

Another leader in the Afghani opposition Khawajah Bahaa Eddine stressed that the American bombardment of Afghanistan has eliminated the ability of Taliban to organize or launch attacks.

As for political details of the American plan to fighting terrorism, the advisor for the US President for the national security said that the US who threatened to expand their operations following the attacks of September 11 is currently observing Iraq, stressing that the war against terrorism is of a large scale, while the US secretary of State Colin Powell, who continues his talks with the Pakistani officials stressed that Islam Abaad's joining of the alliance anti terrorism represents the beginning of a new era in the American- Pakistani relations.