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Exclusive: Eyewitness Account of Huge Taliban Defeat
Stephen Grey, "The Blotter" @ ABC NewsAfghanistan's government flag was raised Wednesday on what had been one of the biggest strongholds of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan and a leading world center of heroin production. The town of about 45,000 people was secured at about 9:30 a.m. as Afghan troops, steered by British soldiers and U.S. Green Berets, drove out remnants of the Taliban resistance from Musa Qala in the opium poppy region of northern Helmand. . . . Posted by: MIke 2007-12-14 |
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