- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The
U.S. military on Saturday denied a report from the Taliban that the Afghan
militia had shot down an American warplane over the besieged southern city
of Kandahar.
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- "All of our aircraft are accounted for," Marine
Corps Major Ralph Mills, spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Tampa,
Florida, told Reuters.
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- The former Taliban ambassador in Pakistan, Mullah Abdul
Salam Zaeef, had been quoted as saying that Taliban fighters had downed
an American jet over the Taliban stronghold during heavy U.S.
bombardment.
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- The Afghan Islamic Press quoted Zaeef as saying that
the plane went down almost one mile south of the Kandahar airport, and
that the Taliban had no information on the fate of the aircraft's
pilots.
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- The report and the denial appeared as U.S. warplanes
unleashed a withering bombardment of Taliban targets around their southern
bastion as Afghan tribal fighters and U.S. Marines dug in within striking
distance of the city.
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- The U.S. began almost round-the-clock bombing in
Afghanistan
in early October to try to flush out Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in
the September 11 attacks on the United States, and to topple his Taliban
protectors.
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