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To: Colorado Doug
Reuters version:

From JOHN ASKILL in Afghanistan. A TALIBAN survivor told yesterday how an entire unit of civilians was were buried alive in a carpet-bombing strike by B-52s. Terrified Osman Rakhim, 23, revealed the shattering explosions caused by the giant US bombers started a landslide on his mountainside position. And he confessed: “I thought I was going to die — the earth was raining from the skies.” Dozens of troops civilians were killed when hundreds of tons of earth and rock came avalanching down on top of them. Rakhim, who wandered away from the carnage in a daze and later surrendered, heard screams for help as a whole unit of fighters civilians dug in behind him were buried. No escape ... explosions on a mountain during bombing Rakhim said: “I could not see, I couldn’t breathe. Everything was in darkness. “There were many, many bombs. The earth shook and it rained rocks and shrapnel. “The hillside was falling on us. There were about 300 of us civilians there dug in with sandbags. I have no idea how many were killed.

87 posted on 11/05/2001 10:08:01 AM PST by Boss_Jim_Gettys
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To: Boss_Jim_Gettys
LOL! Very good.
89 posted on 11/05/2001 10:11:40 AM PST by CWOJackson
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