^^^8 AM ET^^^ BREAKING - Northern Alliance moving on Bagram Airport (Fox)greenspun.com : LUSENET : Current News - Homefront Preparations : One Thread |
No return fire as yet. More as it develops. This is from Steve Harrigan, reporting on a video phone.
-- Anonymous, November 09, 2001
I thought they had Bagram Airport.
-- Anonymous, November 09, 2001
Don't think I heard that. Maybe you're thinking of that initial Delta raid on the Taliban airbase?
-- Anonymous, November 09, 2001
9:40 AM - Harrigan reporting Alliance is still on the move, several tanks, several hundred infantry, firing ahead--still no return fire (yet). Commanders have told him they are moving into position but it is not clear when they will actually attack.
-- Anonymous, November 09, 2001
tanks? infantry? I thought they were using pack animals!
-- Anonymous, November 09, 2001
I too had heard they were using horses in cavalry charges but I wonder if those stories were apocryphal?I'm kinda worried that there is no resistance, neither here nor Mazar-e-Sharif. The last figures I saw said the Taliban had 40-50,000 troops. Where the hell are they? They can't all have gone into caves or succumbed to Daisy Cutters. They're plotting some surprise, count on Maybe a suitcase nuke in those towns, set to go off as soon as the US has established a base?
-- Anonymous, November 09, 2001