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04-29-2008, 08:55 AM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_as/afghan_marines
By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
OUTSIDE GARMSER, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines exchanged gunfire with militants Tuesday after pouring into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region in years.
Several hundred Marines, many of them veterans of the conflict in Iraq, pushed into the town of Garmser in pre-dawn light in an operation to drive out the insurgents, stretching NATO's presence into an area littered with opium poppy fields and classified as Taliban territory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_as/afghan_marines
By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
OUTSIDE GARMSER, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines exchanged gunfire with militants Tuesday after pouring into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region in years.
Several hundred Marines, many of them veterans of the conflict in Iraq, pushed into the town of Garmser in pre-dawn light in an operation to drive out the insurgents, stretching NATO's presence into an area littered with opium poppy fields and classified as Taliban territory.