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Headline News 12-17-01 U.S. warplanes continued their intense assault on the mountains near Tora Bora early Monday, despite one Eastern Alliance commander's claim the fight against al Qaeda was "an already finished war."
At least six major explosions were heard about eight miles west of Tora Bora, near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, as the concentrated U.S. bombing extended into its fourth day. U.S. military officials insisted the war in Afghanistan is not over. Gen. Tommy Franks, chief of U.S. forces in Southwest Asia, deemed the region "confused" Sunday. "It's going to be a while before we have the area around Tora Bora fully under control," he said. "Over the last 24 hours, we have put literally hundreds of pieces of ordnance, bombs and artillery shells into these bunkers and cave complexes. "It's a matter of inching our way forward up the sides of these canyons and physically going into each of these bunkers and caves." A handful of prisoners taken by anti-Taliban forces said that they believe Osama bin Laden is still in the Tora Bora mountain region, contradicting claims that bin Laden may have escaped to Pakistan, CNN learned Monday. The Eastern Alliance said it has captured 35 enemy troops and killed another 200. (Full story) Secretary of State Colin Powell also said Sunday that bin Laden was most likely in Afghanistan, but acknowledged he "can't ignore the possibility that he might not be -- that he might have gotten out." The territory in which bin Laden can hide is shrinking, said U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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