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Article: American warplanes give Taliban a taste of military might.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 31, 2001
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SAYOD, Afghanistan _ American heavy bombers unleashed a torrent of explosives on Taliban positions north of Kabul in the most intensive assaults yet in 24 days of attacks against Afghanistan's hard-line Islamic rulers.
At least four high-flying B-52s, leaving two twin vapor trails in the clear sky as they approached from the north, dropped dozens of bombs in a thunderous attack on front line positions 25 miles north of Kabul, near the Bagram airfield. The Taliban militia controls the heights above the base.
The carpet-bombing, along with dozens of air strikes by smaller jets that approached at high altitudes to avoid Taliban anti-aircraft guns and ...