KABUL/RABAT, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers paraded parts of a downed U.S. helicopter through the streets of war-shattered Kabul on Tuesday in a show of defiance on the 31st day of Washington's air assault.After dark a U.S. warplane fired two missiles into central Kabul sending up a column of smoke and dust behind a school.
``There was a bang, a whizzing sound and then another explosion,'' said Reuters correspondent Sayed Salahuddin.
Earlier, U.S. planes attacked Taliban guns bearing down on an opposition-held airfield north of the capital and the opposition claimed a battlefield victory near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
``Their attack here will soon share the fate of this aircraft,'' a Taliban fighter shouted through a loudspeaker as the wreckage was driven through Kabul.
``Don't worry we will defeat the Americans and their allies,'' he said.
Thousands of residents came out onto the street to see the metal parts and two tires, mounted on the back of a vehicle.
A Taliban official told Reuters the helicopter was shot down in Ghazni province on Saturday.
The Pentagon has denied an aircraft was downed. It said bad weather forced a helicopter to crash. All crew were rescued and the craft destroyed by fighter jets to prevent the Taliban taking sensitive equipment.