KABUL/JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies)-Afghanistan was assessing the damage on Sunday after a seventh straight night of U.S. bombing raids, as the ruling Taliban defiantly snubbed U.S. demands to surrender Osama bin Laden.
Waves of U.S. jets struck the capital Kabul and three other cities on Saturday night, hitting the darkened and curfew-bound Jalalabad in the east with several bombs, witnesses said. (Read photo caption below)
Reports of damage or casualties were not immediately available.
Jalalabad, long surrounded by militant training camps -- including some used by bin Laden's militant network al Qaeda -- has seen particularly heavy bombardment in the first week of the U.S.-led air campaign against the Saudi-born fugitive.
Bin Laden, is hiding in a cave in the Afghan mountains with 300 commandos, according to his son.
Britain's Sunday Mirror quoted bin Laden's 18-year-old son Abdullah as saying in an interview in Peshawar, Pakistan his father disappeared with 60 trucks carrying satellite equipment on September 11.
``America and Britain will never track down my father,'' he said. ``He has vanished into the landscape -- he is invisible.''
Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar insisted again that bin Laden would never be handed over.
PHOTO CAPTION:
An Afghan man Mahmoud lies on a hospital bed in Kabul after he sustained a fractured leg and facial injuries during a U.S. aerial strike, October 13, 2001. A U.S. warplane missed a Taliban military target at Kabul airport overnight and its 2,000-pound bomb apparently blasted a residential neighborhood of the Afghan capital according to Pentagon officials. (Sayed Salahuddin/Reuters)