1.   American bombers have been pounding Kandahar and its surrounding areas, sending many civilians fleeing to refugee camps nearby and across the border into Pakistan.

2.   American bombers laid a heavy barrage across the snowcapped mountains here early Wednesday morning as efforts to arrange a surrender of embattled Osama bin Laden fighters broke down.

3.   American bombers pummeled the ancient fort, but at last report the rioters were still shooting.

4.   American bombers pulverized part of it months earlier, reducing a complex of steel and concrete buildings to rubble.

5.   Among the troops and officers, the prevailing view is that the Northern Alliance will storm the Taliban lines only after American bombers have cleared the way.

6.   An American bomber swept out of the midnight sky and dropped a torpedo.

7.   As recently as the Kosovo bombing campaign, decoys regularly fooled American bombers.

8.   Because of several reported incidents like these, Afghan villagers accuse American bombers and Special Operations troops of being careless in their choice of targets.

9.   A lone kamikaze interrupted his thoughts, rising up to smash into a trailing American bomber.

10.   Both said they went to the railroad bridge after the groups they were with had come under attack from an airplane they described as an American bomber.