DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The U.S. Air Force increased its bombing of Taliban and other insurgent targets in Afghanistan this spring, making about 750 airstrikes in May alone, Air Force officials said.

The intensified bombing in Afghanistan has overshadowed the smaller number of U.S. airstrikes on Iraq, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Gary L. North, who commands U.S. and coalition air operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“We have seen more direct support in Afghanistan that is of a kinetic effect than in Iraq of late,” North told The Associated Press during a visit Monday to the United Arab Emirates, where he met with defense officials.
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‘More direct support of a kinetic effect than in Iraq of late’…we got a poet here.

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