US jets blitz Taliban front lines

US warplanes bombarded Taliban positions near a front line north of the capital of Kabul today, marking what could be the start of a more aggressive campaign on behalf of opposition forces fighting the Islamic regime.

In Kabul, meanwhile, grieving neighbours pulled dust-covered bodies of seven civilians , three women and four children, from the ruins of two homes destroyed by a US bomb earlier today. ‘‘This pilot was like he was blind,’’ sobbed one neighbour.