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A commando raid by US special forces in Paktika Province in eastern Afghanistan killed seven children. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski was told by his anonymous sources at the Pentagon that the commandos had seen no sign of the children during twelve hours of surveillance at a suspected al-Qaeda compound before launching the rocket attack that killed them, as well as "several" enemy fighters. "The growing number of innocent civilians killed in US military attacks has taken a political toll."
ABC's Exclusive was filed by Brian Ross. He narrated videotape filed by an unnamed Pakistani journalist of a Taliban ceremony in which 300 recruits, "including some very young boys," were divided into four teams and assigned as suicide bombers to infiltrate the United States, Canada, Britain and Germany, the four nations with leading representation in the NATO forces in Afghanistan. Ross consulted his anonymous source in "US intelligence" who dismissed the event as a "sophisticated propaganda campaign" featuring "jihadist bravado."
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