ALL SIX AL QAEDA FIGHTERS HOLED UP IN A KANDAHAR HOSPITAL FOR MORE THA...

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

All six al Qaeda fighters holed up in a Kandahar hospital for more than seven weeks were killed on Monday when Afghan forces and their U.S. advisers stormed the building, an Afghan official said. Police initially said three of the fighters loyal to fugitive militant Osama bin Laden were killed, two wounded and one missing after Afghan troops attacked the hospital, but an official later said all six had been killed. U.S. special forces and their Afghan allies launched the assault on the hospital in the early hours of Monday.

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