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November 12, 2001

United Nations: MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR DEAD CIVILIANS

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Flight deck jet handlers pass a steaming catapult on the flight deck as a Navy F-18 Hornet jet takes off , November 12, 2001. Plane is taking part in Operation Enduring Freedom against Taliban targets inside Afghanistan. Jet fighters continue to fly around-the-clock strike missions against Taliban forces in Afghanistan. (Jim Hollander/Reuters) 

Plumes of gray smoke rise over a Taliban-controlled village after a U.S.-led aircraft bombed the frontline near Rabat, near Bagram, 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Afghan capital Kabul, Monday, Nov. 12, 2001. 
In this photo made on Monday, Nov. 12, 2001 pedestrians walk past damaged buildings in Kandahar, Afghanistan which were destroyed by U.S military strikes. (AP Photo) 
In this photo Afghans search through the rubble of buildings in Kandahar, Afghanistan which were destroyed by U.S military strikes. (AP Photo) 
 
 
Afghan men stand next to a damaged car in the village of Kili Chokar, Afghanistan, near Kandahar in this photo made on Monday, Nov. 12, 2001 . The Taliban said the village was targeted in U.S. air strikes. 

 

Members of the United Nations Security Council and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, second left, front row, pause for a moment of silence Monday, Nov. 12, 2001, to honor the accidental Afghan civilian victims of the U.S. air strikes earlier in the day in New York. Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson is to the right of Annan. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) 

 

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