KABUL, Afghanistan?The first daylight raid on the Afghan capital in the 5-day-old U.S.-led air campaign sent shoppers scattering in panic Thursday.

In the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, a hit on a munitions dump set off a series of deafening blasts?and an exodus of civilians toward the Pakistani border.

U.S. planes returned to the skies over Kabul late Thursday, and a huge fireball lit up the sky over the eastern part of the city in the direction of a training base of Osama bin Laden?s al Qaeda terror network.

One month after the terror attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Pakistani officials acknowledged for the first time that U.S. planes and personnel were on the ground as part of the American-led campaign against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, and that the United States had been granted use of two key bases.