USA strikes back—the war in pictures 

The Tribune
October 15, 2001

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Khan Agha, 62, walks with his crutches in a street of the Afghan capital on Saturday. Like hundreds of thousands of other Afghans, Khan lost a leg during the 10 years of war against the Russians in the 1980s. Afghanistan was assessing the damage after a seventh straight night of US bombing raids, as the ruling Taliban defiantly snubbed US demands to surrender Osama bin Laden. —REUTERS