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Anyone wondering whether that meant ground troops needed only to spot the AC-130 gunships that had started flying lazy circles over Afghanistan, hammering targets below at will. If the skies were safe for AC-130s, it followed that low-flying choppers 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...
...anti-Americanism lies in achieving U.S. goals in Afghanistan as quickly as possible. Though Taliban representatives claim that the regime's leaders are alive and well, evidence suggests that American military power has both the Taliban and al-Qaeda on the run. Early last week the Pentagon deployed the AC-130 flying howitzers for a withering cannon assault on Taliban targets in and around Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Pentagon planners have sliced the country into "engagement zones" near Kabul and Kandahar, green-lighting U.S. pilots to attack any military targets in those designated "kill boxes" at any time...
...While U.S cargo jets continued to drop food packages and leaflets assuring ordinary Afghans that the bombs' intended targets were terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda fighters, the chief suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon ordered low-flying AC-130 gunships into action in preparation for the deployment of what President George W. Bush called "friendly troops." By the week's end a U.S. spokesman announced that a small number of special forces were already on the ground in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban defiantly announced that they are ready and eager to avenge...
...Protective air cover may be laid down from above by Apache choppers, AC-130 gunships and F-16s equipped for ground attack...
...front, U.S. assistance is invisible, and North Alliance irritation with the Americans is tangible. In the south, where there are no Alliance troops, the U.S. Friday sent in their own, more than a hundred on a mission around Kandahar. The U.S. has also deployed the sort of killing machines, AC 130's for example, that could change the strategic balance around Kabul in a matter of days if not hours...