On Monday, the United States military added a powerful weapon to the arsenal that it is using to attack the Taliban and al-Qaida: the Air Force's AC-130 gunship, which has been described as one of the most devastating weapons in America's air arsenal. The AC-130, which usually operates at night, can "loiter" for hours over a target, and it's collection of rapid-fire gatling guns and cannon can pour down a withering fire. It would be almost impossible for anything to survive a direct attack of the artillery aboard an AC-130, which has precision targeting capability. For more information on Monday's attacks, see this article, in The New York Times, and this article at the MSNBC.com website.