21.   Because of primitive communications in Afghanistan, it often takes days for damage reports from the hinterlands to become available.

22.   Because of primitive communications in Afghanistan, it often takes days for damage reports to become available.

23.   Damage reports are useful mainly to war planners, though the media and the American public clamor for them, too.

24.   Damage reports were not yet available.

25.   Damage reports from many areas were sketchy.

26.   Damage reports from the apparent bombing were not available.

27.   Damage reports were slow to come from outlying areas.

28.   Damage reports will not be available until after sunrise, Kramer said.

29.   Damage reports from Cesar were slow to come in from outlying areas without telephone and electrical service.

30.   Damage reports were not expected until after sunrise, Kramer said.