LOUD BLASTS AND MACHINE GUN FIRE WERE HEARD EARLY MONDAY MORNING IN KA...

World | January 28, 2002, Monday // 00:00

Loud blasts and machine gun fire were heard early Monday morning in Kandahar as U.S. Special Forces supported an Afghan forces assault on a hospital where heavily armed members of al Qaeda have been holed up for six weeks, U.S. military sources said. Several hours after the assault began at about 8:20 a.m. (10:50 p.m. ET), small arms fire could again be heard in "the general direction" of the hospital, CNN's Ben Wedeman said.

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