US and British forces struck targets in Afghanistan on Monday night on the second day of an effort to weaken the Taliban military and disrupt guerrilla training in that country, US defense officials said.
"These (strikes) are similar to Sunday. We have said that this is a continuing operation," one official said several hours after US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in television interviews that initial cruise missile and bombing raids on Sunday appeared to be successful.
There was no indication of what types of weapons were involved in the new round of strikes.
One of the defense officials noted that the military strikes were designed to knock out air defense missiles, fuel depots and airfields, and that some raids were also planned against Taliban troop concentrations.
(China Daily 10/09/2001)
