A U.S. Cruise Missile strike destroys an entire Afghan village, killing dozens of civilians.
A US attack has struck the small village of Kakrak, 18 miles west of Jalalabad, according to a witness. Fazl Rehman, 31, speaking from his hospital bed in Peshawar, Pakistan, said that at about 11.30pm on Wednesday, at least two US cruise missiles hit the village, apparently aimed at a huge but now deserted Taleban weapons dump a mile away on Black Mountain.
As mud brick walls collapsed under the force of high explosives delivered from thousands of feet above, Mr Rehman was knocked unconscious by what would appear to be the most controversial American strike yet on Afghanistan. One minute, the truck driver and three friends were asleep after a languid autumn evening playing cards; the next, neighbours were pulling them from the debris of a village flattened around them in which, according to unverifiable claims by the Taleban, nearly 200 civilians died.
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