Two US men killed and 20 US injured during a B-52 bombing run Near Kundahar. Just heard this on CNN. B-52 missed target.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2001

Answers

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/05/gen.war.against.terror/index.html

Errant bomb kills 2 U.S. troops, wounds 20

Anti-Taliban fighters rush to Tora Bora

December 5, 2001 Posted: 7:06 a.m. EST (1206 GMT)

U.S. Army soldiers patrol Bagram air base in Afghanistan on Tuesday. (CNN) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 others wounded when a U.S. B-52 bomber missed its target north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.

The officials said an "unknown" number of Afghan opposition forces were killed.

Helicopters were evacuating the injured soldiers to hospitals. Officials said the incident happened about 12:30 a.m. ET.

Sources reported intense fighting Wednesday in Kandahar -- the largest remaining Taliban stronghold. Ethnic Pashtun fighters were pressing on, and sources said the airport is partially under the control of Pashtun fighters.

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, anti-Taliban mujahedeen fighters were engaged with a large pocket of al Qaeda fighters Wednesday at the foothills of the Tora Bora mountains in the eastern part of the country, where suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden might be hiding, their commander said.

Thousands of mujahedeen were being rushed to the area Wednesday. Hazrat Ali, head of security and police for the Eastern Alliance in Jalalabad, said he hoped to have 2,000 to 3,000 mujahedeen in Tora Bora before the end of the day so he could launch an offensive against bin Laden and his al Qaeda network. (Full story)

Meanwhile, delegates meeting in Bonn, Germany, have selected anti- Taliban commander Hamid Karzai to head an interim government in Afghanistan. A U.N. spokesman confirmed to CNN that the four Afghan factions at the Bonn meeting had approved a group of names to fill posts in the Cabinet that will run the country for the next six months. (Full story]

Latest developments • U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he believes bin Laden is still in Afghanistan. "We think he is in Afghanistan," said Rumsfeld. "He may not be. Afghanistan has long, porous borders. In the event he decides to flee, we will have to follow him where he flees."

• Pentagon officials said Tuesday a member of the U.S. Special Forces was shot while helping opposition troops around Kandahar. Officials said they are not sure if the wound was the result of an accident, friendly fire or hostile action. The officials said the wound was not considered life-threatening, and the soldier has been evacuated from Afghanistan.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2001

Word is these were Special Forces, doing laser targeting.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2001