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Fri 07 Jul 2009US begins major offensive in Afghanistan
THE US poured 4,000 marines into Afghanistan’s Helmand province yesterday in its biggest operation for five years to try to wrest the poppy-filled river valley permanently from the Taliban.
In helicopters, armoured vehicles and on foot, the marines fanned out to Afghan villages in two districts previously dominated by insurgents in a mission codenamed Operation Khanjar (Sword Strike).
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