Afghanistan as the war begins

A jet takes-off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in the Gulf, Thursday, October 11, 2001. The USS Enterprise is one of the many ships involved in the attacks on Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks one month ago. REUTERS/pool/Jockel Finck

Taliban soldiers, one holding a bull horn and the other carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, guard the Afghan side of the border with Pakistan at the Chaman border crossing Sunday, Oct. 28, 2001. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reacts while speaking to the press at the Pentagon, October 22, 2001. Rumsfeld gave no assurances that U.S. bombing of Afghanistan would stop during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which starts mid-November. \"We have great respect for the views and concerns of the many countries that are cooperating in this effort,\" he told the press during the briefing. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang

Khadija Syed, 8, of Culver City, Calif., holds a sign while participating in a rally in Los Angeles' Pershing Square, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2001, as part of a national demonstration against U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Daily News, John Lazar)

RETRANSMISSION FOR IMPROVED QUALITY-Explosions rise over the Taliban positions in the Qala-Cata mountains, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov.7, 2001. Aided by heavy U.S. bombing, opposition forces said they seized a district of Mazar-e-Sharif from Taliban forces Wednesday and were closing in on the key northern city, according to Northern Allliance spokesman Ashraf Nadeem. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

An Afghan woman wearing a traditional Burqa walks on the side of a road as a Northern Alliance APC, (Armored Personnel Carrier) carrying fighters and the Afghan flag, drives to a new position in the outskirts of Jabal us Seraj, some 60 km (37 miles) north of the Afghan capital Kabul, November 4, 2001.The Northern Alliance, a mix of mostly ethnic Uzbek and Tajik fighters in the north, is viewed with suspicion and enmity by ethnic Pashtuns, who operate in other areas. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

A mujahiden takes position at the captured Al Qaeda training camp after Afghan anti-Taliban forces captured the camp in Melawa mountain near Tora Bora, 11 December 2001. AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD

Shannon Spann, wife of CIA officer Johnny Micheal \"Mike\" Spann, follows her husband's casket to the grave side as she holds her 6-month old son Jake, at his funeral in Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, Dec. 10, 2001 in Arlington, Va, Spann was remembered as an American hero as he was buried with full military honors amid the white grave markers .(AP Photo/Doug Mills)

Afghan refugees keep themselves warm under wool blankets as they live homeless near the Maslakh refugee camp, west of Herat in western Afghanistan, 30 November 2001. They live on the ground without tents due to lack of space for them at the camp, where more than 200,000 are crammed and many have died from cold weather, hunger and illness. AFP PHOTO/Behrouz MEHRI

Ahmad, a nurse at at Jalalabad's Public Health Hospital, attends to Hazrat Hussein, left, and Abdul Ghafar, right, both of whom local official claim were injured in a U.S. bombing raid in Nangarhar province, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The U.S. military said it has no evidence any of its airstrikes hit civilians. (AP Photo/Yola Monakhov)

397732 21: (NEWSWEEK AND US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT OUT UNTIL DECEMBER 10, 2001) American soldiers hide behind a barricade during an explosion, prior to fighting with Taliban forces November 26, 2001 at the fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan. The fighting came after several hundred prisoners, mostly foreigners fighting for the Taliban, captured part of fortress. The fortress was also the headquarters of alliance commander Gen. Rashid Dostum. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)

An Afghan anti-Taliban tank gunner prays next to his tank position over looking the White Mountains of Tora Bora in northeastern Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 10, 2001. With U.S. fighter jets streaking overhead, anti-Taliban forces firing tanks and anti-aircraft guns Monday seized a key ridge near one of Osama bin Laden's hideouts in the majestic mountains near Pakistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

397209 09: Northern Alliance soldiers execute a wounded Taliban soldier during an advance from the Bagram front line toward Kabul November 12, 2001 in Afghanistan. The attack was launched in the early afternoon from several front lines and continued until dark. (Photo by Tyler Hicks/Getty Images)

A civilian man runs away from a BM21 Northern Alliance multiple rocket launching system, 12 November 2001, not far from the town of Bagram, some 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) North from Kabul as they shell Taliban positions. Earlier US military planes hit targets on the southern portion of the front line near Bagram airport and Karabagh. AFP PHOTO/ Alexander NEMENOV.

A northern alliance soldier points at the traces of jets in the sky above the village of Ai-Khanum, near Qalai Dasht, northern Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2001. The fall of the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif boosted opposition morale on the other main front north of Kabul. (AP Photo/ Sergei Grits)

Northern Alliance fighters atop a Russian made T-62 tank enter Kabul and drive past a destroyed Bread factory November 13, 2001. Forces of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance entered Kabul on Tuesday as reports from across the country pointed to a collapse of Taliban rule. Civilians greeted opposition fighters and celebrated in the streets of Kabul. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

A Kabul resident shaves off his beard, mandated by the city's former rulers, in a barber shop after Taliban forces vacated the Afghan capital November 13, 2001. Greeted by cheering residents, opposition fighters captured Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Tuesday in defiance of international pressure to stay out, after the city was abandoned by the Taliban under the cover of darkness. REUTERS/Sayed Salahuddin

397425 15: Hand written notes lay on the floor of a room inside a house on a suspected Al Qaeda base November 16, 2001 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Items found include a page torn from a flying magazine with flight training ads, a map of Afghanistan, packaging from a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 98, detailed notes writted both in Arabic and English and other documents. (Photo by Tyler Hicks/Getty Images)

Maqsod, 8, leans on a window near his bed at the orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001. The orphanage has no means of support since the fall of the Taliban and is left with only a two-week supply of food for the 450 children living there. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

Thousands of refugees from Kabul and troops wait for the permission to enter the Northern outskirts of Kabul 13 November 2001, after Northern Alliance soldiers captured the capital. Opposition forces poured into Kabul on Tuesday chasing the Taliban militia from the capital, as the hardline regime which dragged the country back into the Middle Ages for five years appeared to be on the run. AFP PHOTO/Alexander NEMENOV

398522 02: U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers drive through the streets of Kandahar on the way to their security post at the new interim prime minister Hamid Karzai's compound December 12, 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Karzai will be staying in Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar's former residence after Omar fled the city. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

398957 12: Hamid Karzai, the new Prime Minister of Afghanistan's interim government prays during his swearing in ceremony at the Interior Ministry December 22, 2001 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Today marked the first peaceful transfer of power in Afghanistan in more than two decades. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

An Afghan northern alliance soldier tries to keep a crowd of desperate Afghans from crowding him, during a chaotic day of food distribution on the grounds of a high school, sponsored by World Food Program, and assisted by local authorities, in the Afghan capital Kabul, Monday, Dec. 10, 2001. As hunger grows in Afghanistan with the onset of winter, World Food Program plans to supply wheat to 1.3 million people over the next eight days. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

An Afghan girl reads from the board in a home-based school in Kabul December 2, 2001. The school, operating secretly for a year under the strict Taliban regime, has now opened its doors for all children ready to pay a small monthly fee. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj