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Article: Marines battle Taliban in searing heat: ; Insurgents likely captured American soldier missing Tuesday, U.S. military says
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and
took fire from small pockets of militants after landing in this
Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes
and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under
President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.
Elsewhere, the U.S. military announced that insurgents were
believed to have captured an American soldier missing in eastern
Afghanistan on Tuesday. The missing soldier was not involved in
Operation Khanjar, or "Strike of the Sword," under way in southern
Afghanistan.
The southern offensive was launched shortly after 1 a.m.
Thursday, as thousands of Marines poured from ...