U.S. drops 'Daisy Cutter'

WASHINGTON, NOV. 24. The U.S. warplanes pounded tunnels and caves in Afghanistan's mountains on Friday and the Pentagon said it had dropped a devastating `Daisy Cutter' in Kandahar.

The U.S. military said up to 70 long-range bombers and tactical jets concentrated strikes on Kandahar and the mountains of southern Afghanistan, yesterday. American B-52s also bombed Kunduz.

The U.S. military's central command said the 6,800-kg Blu-82 bomb, called a `Daisy Cutter,' was dropped near Kandahar on Wednesday.

It was only the third time the bomb - which produces a blast like that of a small nuclear bomb and devastates an area 550 meters - had been used in Afghanistan. ``A great portion of that bomb's effectiveness is its psychological impact on troops,'' said Maj. Brad Lowell, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command.

- Reuters

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