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...thunder of carpet bombing by B-52s rumbled for a second successive day in Afghanistan, Thursday, heralding an approaching moment of truth for the opposition Northern Alliance. The heavy bombers, not used since the first days of bombing, have joined an American air armada pounding frontlines north of Kabul and all around Mazar-i-Sharif, as part of a U.S. effort to soften Taliban defenses for a ground offensive by the Alliance on both fronts. The bombing may continue for days yet, but when it ends, it will be up to the anti-Taliban armies of the north...
...could deliver commandos into enemy territory. Inside the Pentagon, military planners conceded that the air war was producing diminishing returns. And so Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began dishing out the rhetoric. On Monday he stressed that American forces should "develop relationships" with anti-Taliban forces on the ground. B-52s "are powerful and can do certain things within reasonable degrees of accuracy," noted Rumsfeld, "[but] they can't crawl around on the ground and find people." The next day the Defense Secretary went to Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri as reports flew that special forces were already...
Islamic militants in Pakistan vowed to raid a Pakistani air base being used by the U.S. for missions in Afganistan. The militants have been aching to bust up some B-52s...
...from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. and Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, as well as F-15s from Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, have been ordered to the region. Among the more than 5,000 reservists the Air Force have called up are crews manning B-52s at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and B-1s at Robins Air Force Base...
...52s will operate from Diego Garcia, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. B-2s, which also may be called up to attack targets, are expected to fly nonstop from their home base in Missouri, drop their ordnance, and then return home...