U.S. B-52 Bombs Tora Bora Area (as deadline passes)

AP ^ | 12/11/01

[fm1]

TORA BORA, Afghanistan –– A U.S. B-52 aircraft bombed the Tora Bora area on Wednesday after cornered al-Qaida forces ignored a surrender deadline set by the opposing tribal eastern alliance.

Journalists were kept away from the area by alliance fighters, who earlier confirmed that no al-Qaida forces had given up.

It was unclear whether the bombs directly hit a canyon occupied by al-Qaida members. However, gunfire could be heard coming from the area

[speedy]

Cool. Party on, Tora Bora style.

[SamAdams76]

Journalists were kept away from the area by alliance fighters,

This must explain Whorealdo's presence.

[2Jedismom]

Good Morning Afghanistan!

[zlala]

Daisy cutters make me feel so warm and fuzzy ...
The men, women and children in the towers weren't given the opportunity to surrender ... so let's have a Bar-B-Q. I don't mind burning them alive ... it was good enough for American victims ... it's good enough for them.

[Hillary 666]

Good. This provides a nice out. Sure beats having to deal with POWs and trials and half the governments of the world trying to interfere in the judicial process.

[nopardons]

I concur.

BOMBS AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY !

[oyez]

All my roudy friends are comming over tonight.

[Free Vulcan]

DAYO. DAAAAAYYYYYO!!

Go bomb Osama then we gonna come home!

[hole_n_one]

What "deadline"?

[fm1]

Ananova adds the following:

The eastern alliance, which overran al-Qaida's positions on Tuesday, gave their mainly Arab opponents until 8am local time (0330 GMT) to disarm and walk out of the Tora Bora area, saying they would otherwise face a massive attack.

About 30 minutes after the surrender deadline had come and gone, the alliance's defence chief Mohammed Zaman said: "No Arabs have come out, yet."

Zaman smiled and cocked his head when asked if US military personnel were operating in the area.

American warplanes also carried out bombing raids before dawn in the area on Wednesday. And, as the surrender deadline passed, a B52 bomber circled menacingly over Tora Bora, leaving a spiraling white vapour trail in the blue sky.

It dropped its payload about an hour later

[Map Kernow]

Fryin' 'em saves the time and expense of tryin' 'em (not to mention the hassle from liberal bleeding hearts).

[UFO]

The most awesome piece written about this war.

Now they know who we are!

[UFO]

Sorry, the link fell out.

[UFO]

Will Someone fix this link...........??

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001560015-2001573033,00.html

[vbmoneyspender]

LOL.

That reminds me of the scene in Midnight Run where Robert De Niro has been arrested for impersonating an FBI agent. De Niro is sitting in one of the FBI's field offices when Yaphet Kotto, who is the agent De Niro has been impersonating, walks in. Yaphet Kotto sees De Niro and then comes over to him and says: "You know, impersonating an FBI officer is a very serious offense." To which De Niro responds, "Oh yeah, so how come you're not in jail."

[StoneColdGOP]

Bomb 'em to hell.

[Constitution Day]

Will Someone fix this link...........??

Glad to!

[spectr17]

Holy Shiiiite, everywhere you look there is US and Anti Taliban soldiers. You look up and there's B-52s. I gotta get outta here. Yo Osamy, wait up.