USA strikes back—the war in pictures 

The Tribune
October 17, 2001

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CHARKHI: This undated Department of Defense handout released  on Monday shows a Charkhi motor vehicle and ordnance repair facility in Afghanistan before it was attacked (TOP) and after it was attacked (BOTTOM). The frontlines of battles between the Taliban militia and rebel forces won't be "a very safe place to be" for Taliban fighters, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday as US warplanes carried out the biggest daylight attacks so far over Afghanistan. —AP/PTI