'10 die' in Kabul strike
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An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw the bodies of four children and one man. Neighbours said there were other dead as well.
A neighbour, Zarmeen Bibi, said the strike had occured about 7 a.m. Several U.S. jets roared over the capital of Kabul Sunday morning, apparently aiming at military targets on the northern edge of the city.
Word of the deaths comes a day after an apparent stray US strike hit a village behind the rebel military alliance's battle lines north of Kabul. At least one woman was killed and 10 hurt in that strike, according to witnesses.
¿ Pakistan has turned over to US officials a suspect wanted in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole last year, a Yemeni microbiology student. It was the first known arrest outside Yemen in connection with the attack, which Osama bin Laden is suspected of masterminding.
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