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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: Teresa Lo who started this subject10/30/2001 4:52:26 PM
From: Fast Eddie  Read Replies (2) of 27666
 
DJN: DJ US Drops Giant Bomb On Taliban Front Lines
[16:15] (Dow Jones 10/30 16:16:28)
Witnesses also said they saw a U.S. plane drop a bomb Tuesday at the Bagram front lines, about 25 miles north of Kabul, creating a mushroom cloud that billowed at least 1,000 feet into the air. Witnesses called it the biggest bomb to hit the area in 10 days of U.S. bombardments on the front lines.
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Probably a Fuel-air bomb. FAEs are more powerful than conventional high-explosive munitions of comparable size, are more likely to kill and injure people in bunkers, shelters, and caves, and kill and injure in a particularly brutal manner over a wide area. In urban settings it is very difficult to limit the effect of this weapon to combatants, and the nature of FAE explosions makes it virtually impossible for civilians to take shelter from their destructive effect.
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