TITLE

Taliban's foes await more help

AUTHOR(S)
Baldauf, Scott; Weir, Fred; Peterson, Scott
PUB. DATE
October 2001
SOURCE
Christian Science Monitor;10/12/2001, Vol. 93 Issue 223, p1
SOURCE TYPE
Newspaper
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the tactics of the United States in an air war on Afghanistan, which appear to be shifting. Bombing of some Taliban convoys and armaments by the U.S.; Idea that the Northern Alliance is not equipped to defeat the Taliban; Efforts to rout Osama bin Laden and the Taliban before winter.
ACCESSION #
5325103

Tags: AERIAL bombing;  UNITED States -- Armed Forces;  TALIBAN;  BIN Laden, Osama, 1957-2011;  NORTHERN Alliance (Afghanistan)

 

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