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Afghanistan pounded in second week of airstrikes

(CNN) -- The U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan entered its second week Sunday night with airstrikes targeting artillery and heavy armor that had been moved to the mountains outside of Kabul, sources said.

Late in the evening, explosions also rocked the city of Kandahar. Sources inside the city told CNN they sounded like GBU-28s, or "bunker busters," laser-guided weapons developed for penetrating command centers situated deep underground.

Sunday's attacks came a day after some of the fiercest strikes since the campaign began a week ago.

Pentagon sources told CNN that U.S. planes bombed Kandahar Saturday for several hours, hitting several targets, including a Taliban military headquarters. (Full story)

Across the border in Pakistan, anti-U.S. sentiment turned violent on Sunday as authorities were tightening security in preparation for Monday's planned visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

One person was killed during an anti-U.S. protest near an air base outside the southern city of Jacobabad. Protesters say the United States and its allies are using the base, but Pakistani officials will not confirm or deny the presence of U.S. forces. (Full story)

Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said Sunday that Pakistani officials want to hear Powell's assessment of the campaign targeting the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and how soon it may end.

"We should like to hear from the soldier-statesman his assessment of the operation," Sattar said. "Do we see light at the end of the tunnel, and what needs to be done to bring this operation to a close?"

Sattar said Pakistani officials would make clear that any injuries to civilians in the airstrikes would further inflame passions in Pakistan.

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President Bush rejected Sunday the latest Taliban offer to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden to a third country if the United States agrees to stop its bombing campaign and provides evidence of bin Laden's complicity in the September 11 attacks.

"If they want us to stop our military operations, they just got to meet my conditions. When I said 'no negotiations,' I meant 'no negotiations,'" Bush said.

He said there was no reason to discuss bin Laden's guilt because "we know he's guilty."

"Turn him over, turn his cohorts over, turn any hostage they hold over, destroy all the terrorist camps. There's no need to negotiate, there's no discussion. I told them exactly what they need to do," Bush said as he returned from the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland.

Latest developments

• CNN's Nic Robertson was among a group of journalists allowed to visit, under Taliban escort, sites in and around Jalalabad. While some stores were closed and a few people were leaving town, there was a sense of normalcy, with traffic on the streets and people running errands. Taliban officials allowed journalists to view an airfield and radar installation near the city that were heavily damaged. (Full story)

They also took journalists to the village of Koram, west of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The Taliban claim 200 people died in the attack, about half the village's population, but there was no way to independently verify that claim.

A Pentagon spokesman told CNN that Koram "was not on our target list" and military officials do not yet know why the village was hit. He said it could have been hit by U.S. Air Force or Navy strikes, by British planes or by any number of players who have interests in the conflict. The Pentagon also suggested Koram could have been hit by a Taliban surface-to-air missile that went astray. (Full story)

• Anti-Taliban Mujahedeen sources in Iran say more than 4,000 men who have been fighting alongside the Taliban have now joined the opposition Northern Alliance forces in the northern Afghan province of Jozejan. (Full story)

• U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Sunday that "it's very unlikely" that all of the people associated with the September 11 terror attacks have been arrested. (Full story)

• Authorities in the northern Nigerian city of Kano confirmed at least 18 dead Sunday after two days of clashes between police and anti-U.S. protesters. Despite official accounts of the number of dead, witnesses told CNN they had seen hundreds of bodies in the streets and elsewhere. The protests began peacefully Friday as an angry reaction to the U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan but turned violent Saturday. (Full story)

• Preliminary test results suggest more newspaper employees may have been exposed to anthrax in Boca Raton, Florida, but the workers do not show any symptoms, a source at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told CNN on Sunday. Meanwhile, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told reporters at a Sunday news conference that two more people -- a lab technician and a police officer -- have been exposed to the disease, although they do not have it. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson called the anthrax incidents acts of bioterrorsim but could not conclusively link them to the September 11 attacks and the al-Qaeda network.(Full story)

• A Pentagon official said an errant U.S. bomb had struck a residential area near Kabul. The precision-guided bomb missed its mark by about a mile, killing up to four civilians and wounding eight, the Pentagon said. U.S. officials said they regret the loss of life.

• In northern Afghanistan, aid officials said the refugee situation was worsening as temperatures dropped in the mountains and snow was expected to begin falling in about a month. The officials called for a cease-fire so that supplies could be brought in for the hundreds of thousands of refugees already hiding in the mountains. (Full story)

• New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's office said Sunday that 4,688 people are missing and 450 are now confirmed dead in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The confirmed dead include 73 New York firefighters.