Baghdad, Jan 10, SPA -- U.S. warplanes dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs on more than 40 targets on Baghdad's southern outskirts on Thursday in a major strike on al Qaeda targets, Reuters quoted the military as saying in a statement. The U.S. Air Force dispatched two B-1 bombers and four F-16 fighter jets, aiming at three large target areas in Arab Jabour.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/516374