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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (6801)	10/9/2001 9:49:49 PM
From: Lola	Respond to of 27672

"There was a lot of firing from the Taliban," he said. "But it wasn't a problem for the airplanes." Once the rhythm began, there was little to do but sit in darkness, wait for the next concussion and hope not to be hit. "I was very frightened," Mr. Ahmad said. From his apartment window he saw bombs strike Kabul airport, a radar on Bibbmaharool Hill and a military base in the district called Tapanaranjon. He resolved to leave before dawn. He said he feared both the bombs and being conscripted by Taliban forces and sent to the front. Before the sun began to rise, the bombing waned and he said good-bye to his family. He walked onto a darkened street crowded with people. He said that the people of Kabul were well aware of why the United States was attacking the city. Iranian radio, Voice of America and the BBC are all listened to on transistor radios there. "It's not only the people of Kabul," he said, "all the people of the world know why the United States attacks." But he warned that public sentiment could quickly shift if civilians were killed. Expressing a common belief here, he said that because the United States was so powerful, it makes no mistakes and should be held to a higher standard. For now he said, public sentiment had shifted against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.