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![]() Saturday, September 5, 1998 Published at 08:23 GMT 09:23 UK ![]() ![]() World: South Asia ![]() Taleban grants access to strike target ![]() The camp was damaged, but not destroyed ![]()
According to the Taleban, the camp in the Khost region was the one run by the Saudi dissident, Osama bin Laden - the man the US accuses of organising the bomb attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
A journalist for the BBC Urdu Service said the local authorities confirmed that 21 people were killed in the American attack, including six Afghan civilians. President Bill Clinton described the camp as one of the most active terrorist bases in the world.
But the journalist, who visited the camp, said most buildings and ammunition dumps on the site he visited were undamaged, and the camps were never very elaborate to begin with. Local people were nevertheless angry that mosques had been hit, and copies of the Koran destroyed in the resulting fires. Of some 50 missiles fired at the site, at least three were found unexploded. ![]() |
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