KABUL (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft fire opened up for a third time over the Afghan capital early on Monday morning as residents heard planes roaring overhead, witnesses said. (Read photo caption below)

``You could hear a plane, or planes and then there was the reply of guns,'' one witness said. ``It was not clear if more bombs were being dropped. It sounded like some outside the city.''

The United States and its allies finally launched anticipated attacks on Afghan Taliban targets on Sunday, shortly after a nightly curfew went into effect.

A second raid came less than five hours later followed by the third early on Monday morning.

Other cities including the Taliban's stronghold of Kandahar and the eastern city of Jalalabad have also been raided at least twice.
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President George W. Bush said October 7, 2001 the United States and Britain had begun strikes against military installations of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and training camps of Islamic militant Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. U.S. officials said the attacks included cruise missile strikes, seen above in a file photo, and were launched against Taliban military positions in the capital Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar. (Raytheon via Reuters)