DEH SABZ: A nomad woman who was injured in the leg during a US air strike lies under a blanket inside her tent near the village of Deh Sabz, 20 km north of the Afghan capital Kabul, on Oct. 10, 2001. Warplanes pounded also the Taliban's home base of Kandahar early on Wednesday for the third time in 24 hours, targeting the airport outside the southern Afghan city. —AP/PTI