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发信人: Systems (落叶), 信区: English
标 题: U.S. Troops Raid Afghanistan for al-Qaida (转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月20日13:02:31 星期四), 站内信件
【 以下文字转载自 WarofIRAQ 讨论区 】
【 原文由 Systems 所发表 】
U.S. Troops Raid Afghanistan for al-Qaida
Thursday March 20, 2003 4:50 AM
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - About 1,000 U.S. troops launched a raid on villag
es in southeastern Afghanistan Thursday, hunting for members of the al-Qaida
terrorist network in the biggest U.S. operation in just over a year, milita
ry officials said.
Helicopters ferried troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to the rem
ote, mountainous area as the hunt for Osama bin Laden and his terror network
intensified, according to U.S. military officials in Washington.
Military officials in Afghanistan confirmed the operation was underway, but
would provide no details.
``I do not have anything to say about the Kandahar operation at this time,''
said Col. Roger King, U.S. army spokesman at the U.S. headquarters at Bagra
m.
The troops left from their base in Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold i
n southern Afghanistan.
Radio transmissions had been detected coming from caves above the villages,
said military officials in Washington .
It was the largest U.S. military operation in Afghanistan since Operation An
aconda just over a year ago. That eight-day battle involved hundreds of Tali
ban and al-Qaida fighters against thousands of American and allied Afghan tr
oops.
There have been a series of raids on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan
border in the weeks since authorities captured al-Qaida's No. 3 figure, Khal
id Sheikh Mohammed, in Pakistan on March 1. Authorities have said Mohammed i
s giving information to U.S. interrogators and have said some of the subsequ
ent arrests came as a result of Mohammed's capture.
Mohammed, an alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the Uni
ted States, is being interrogated by American officials at an undisclosed lo
cation.
The agents who captured him in a suburb of Islamabad found computers, mobile
telephones, documents and other evidence that could help lead to other al-Q
aida members.
There have been increased attacks on Afghan government posts in southern Afg
hanistan in recent weeks. The authorities have blamed remnants of Taliban, a
l-Qaida and loyalists of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a renegade rebel commander lab
eled a terrorist by the United States.
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