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March 20, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/international/asia/20KAND.html

1,000 U.S. Troops Raid Afghan Towns

(New York Times) - About 1,000 American troops launched operations in eastern Afghanistan Thursday in a hunt for al Qaeda members, a spokesman at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar said. The new operation in Afghanistan, called Valiant Strike, is the biggest by American forces in eastern Afghanistan in over a year, military officials said.

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