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Report: Local leaders aided Taliban raid

Source: United Press International

Washington : DC : USA | about 1 year ago

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Local leaders helped Taliban militants in a deadly July attack on U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan, an internal review by the U.S. military indicated...The assault July 13 involved about 200 militants, nearly three times the number of U.S. and Afghan troops defending the site.

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