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US to use 'smart' weapons in Afghanistan

The United States plans to use 'smart' or precision weapons to the maximum extent during its impending strikes on terrorist bases in Afghanistan.

The US will avoid destroying electrical grids, bridges and water supplies, an administration official was quoted as saying by The Washington Times.

In the previous US-led bombing campaigns, such as those against Iraq and Yugoslavia, the Pentagon worked off a broad target list, which included bridges, roads, electrical generators and, in some cases, central water supplies.

Officials said that in the impending campaign against the Taleban, the US would rely on a growing arsenal of 'smart' munitions to surgically separate the militia from the Afghan society.

The targets would include the military that supports terrorists along with Taleban the headquarters, meeting places and known hideouts.

Sparing the civilian infrastructure would allow the administration to show the world that the strikes were against terrorists and not part of a war against the suffering Afghan people, the paper said.

PTI

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