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Article: New Afghan generation at war: Fresh battles erupted this month in a state where radicals are a main import, and export.(World)(Twenty Years Of Strife)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 17, 2000
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The young soldier leads the way to the front line, moving swiftly through a maze of baked mud walls. Ammunition clips strapped to his belt and his Kalashnikov at the ready, he pads like a panther past spent cartridges and pools of fresh blood.
Two fierce battles - the heaviest fighting this year in war-torn Afghanistan - broke out earlier this month along the Baghram Front, just 30 miles north of the capital, Kabul. The soldier and his comrades, opponents of the radical Islamic Taliban regime, pause at the edge of an eerie no man's land. In the distance looms the wreckage of a truck that was transporting Taliban warriors when it took a direct hit.
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