An office of the Arab channel Al-Jazeera, which has been criticised by the U.S. for its coverage of the Afghan conflict, was hit early Tuesday during an air raid. The U.S. said it targeted the al-Qaida network and didn't know the television channel was located there. No one was in the two-story building housing the office when it was hit before dawn Tuesday, as columns of Taliban soldiers poured south out of the capital, said Ghulal Mohammed, a guard at the office in Kabul's Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood.
"It was a rocket, but everyone is OK," he said. He said the missile didn't explode.
But an American official said two 500-pound bombs were dropped on the site, which the U.S. military believed was an office of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.

The building was "a known al-Qaida facility in central Kabul," said Col. Rick Thomas, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command.
"We had no indications this or any nearby facility was used by Al-Jazeera," Thomas said. Bureau Report