Rockets and Bread in the Snow
American bombs have been raining on Afghanistan for more than a week now. And there is no sign as to when these attacks might stop. Using a new and rather unusual tactic of 'attack combined with food aid', the US is thought to be increasingly keen to get at Afghanistan's ruling Taleban before winter sets in in November. TEMPO journalist Ahmad Taufik reports from the Afghan border.
October 16, 2001
The American press often calls it the war room. Officially named the White House Situation Room, this room in reality is a command center available to every US President. And it was to that room that President George W. Bush invited his senior officials for an important meeting on Friday, October 5. The atmosphere was tense. Bush asked General Richard B. Myers, chief of staff of combined operations, if Tommy Franks was ready to go. Franks, for th...