ATTACKING THE TALIBAN

An Afghan opposition fighter takes position at a destroyed building at the Bagram airport, some 19 miles from Kabul, on October 9. U.S. warplanes flew combat missions over Afghanistan on the third day of an air campaign that struck the residential compound of Taliban’s supreme leader and also claimed the first confirmed civilian casualties.

This image released on October 9 by the Department of Defense shows pre- and poststrike photos of the Garmabak Ghar terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a briefing to the media on October 9 said that the first three days of air strikes have been successful to the point where the coalition could carry out strikes as they wished.