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Day five developments

After a brief lull, US jets resumed their bombing spree of Afghanistan with renewed vigour, using for the first time laser guided bombs, dubbed 'bunker busters'. Reports said at least three underground military installations north of Kabul were destroyed by the 'bunker busters' (Full Story).

In the US, panic quotient touched an all-time high with the discovery of a fourth case of anthrax infection, convincing the FBI of foul play in the whole episode (Full Story).

While, Americans claimed superiority over Afghan air space, an increasingly defiant Taleban on the ground dismissed American claims as 'hot air', saying the real war would begin only on the ground (Full Story). The Taleban also claimed that five days of American attacks had claimed more than 100 innocent lives (Full Story). Adding weight to the Taleban claims, Amnesty International slammed the US-led forces for civilian deaths (Full Story).

In Pakistan, adding to the already existing confusion about the degree of Pakistan's support to the US, former ISI chief Hamid Gul came out with a conspiracy theory accusing US and Israel of eyeing Pakistan's nuclear installation in the guise of bombing Afghanistan (Full Story), even as reports spoke of a group of Pakistanis leaving for Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taleban (Full Story). A jittery Pakistan was also reassured by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that India would not launch strikes against it (Full Story).

Across the border in India, Islamic clerics condemned the US attacks on Afghanistan as anti-Islamic and gave a call to Muslims to boycott soft drinks manufactured by American giants Pepsi and Coke, to register their protest against the US raids (Full Story).

Elsewhere in the Muslim world, the Organisation of Islamic Conference finally seemed to be coming in terms with the US attacks on Afghanistan, condemning it and asking the US to convene a global conference of terrorism to discuss the best ways to tackle terror (Full Story).

The morning of Thursday began the same way as that of Wednesday, with the US jets pounding the Afghan capital Kabul, the Taleban stronghold of Kandahar and the strategically important southern city of Jalalabad. (Full Story). Reports also said the US jets targeted Al Qaeda's bio-warfare facility (Full Story).

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