Allied planes drop bombs near Pakistan borders

Allied warplanes bombed positions near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan today, while US forces tried to glean information from a pair of high-profile detainees.

US officials said Mullah Abdul Zaeef, the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, was being held aboard the USS Bataan in the Arabian Sea, along with eight other detainees, including American Taliban fighter John Walker.

Zaeef -- detained Thursday by Pakistani authorities -- has been questioned over the past several days about the whereabouts of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

At the airport near Kandahar, US Marines were guarding Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi, a high-ranking al Qaeda leader believed to have run bin Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.

Twenty-five more detainees were brought to the airport late Saturday, bringing to 300 the number of al Qaeda and Taliban held in US military custody there.

Sunday's airstrikes were carried out by US F-16s, combat helicopters and at least one B-52.

They targeted a sparsely populated area near an intricate network of tunnels used by the mujahedeen who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.