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Sunday, 21 October, 2001, 10:07 GMT 11:07 UK

In pictures: Ground attack

The US Pentagon has shown grainy video clips of the first ground operation in Afghanistan when special forces dropped deep into Taleban territory in southern Afghanistan on Friday night.

They attacked a compound belonging to the Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar near the group's stronghold of Kandahar, and an airfield south-west of the city.

US military personnel pack equipment at an unspecified location

US forces board an aircraft at an unknown location

A parachute drop by US special forces, believed to be near Kandahar

A US aircraft flies over an unknown building in Taleban-controlled Afghanistan

US special forces in an unspecified building in southern Afghanistan

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