U.S. Marines launch key operation in south Afghanistan

2009/07/02 21:50:01 @Reuters: International News

SORKHDOZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan valley on Thursday, marking the start of a major new effort by the Obama administration to regain the initiative in the war. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=x0bFGDLYERE:MfWi6aRWdU4:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=x0bFGDLYERE:MfWi6aRWdU4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=x0bFGDLYERE:MfWi6aRWdU4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=x0bFGDLYERE:MfWi6aRWdU4:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=x0bFGDLYERE:MfWi6aRWdU4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/x0bFGDLYERE" height="1" width="1"/
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