U.S. official: Special forces in Afghan operations
September 28, 2001 Posted: 1:09 p.m. EDT (1709 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. and British elite forces have conducted operations within Afghanistan, a senior Bush administration official told CNN on Friday.
The Special Operations forces have been in Afghanistan and the region within the past several days, a White House source said. (Full story)
The official declined to comment on Pakistani media reports that the soldiers were looking for suspected terrorist ringleader Osama bin Laden.
Such operations, customary with major military deployments like the one in the region, help gather information about terrain and possible airstrike targets, the source said.
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Reports of the operations first appeared in Pakistani newspapers and, this morning, in USA Today.
Meanwhile, in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, Taliban officials rejected pleas to hand over bin Laden and to free eight international aid workers, according to Taliban officials. (Full story)
The requests were made by Muslim clerics and government officials visiting from Pakistan. Afterward, the Pakistani delegation left for Islamabad, Taliban officials said.
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