Marines face fierce resistance in Afghan assault

2010/02/15 16:17:55 @Reuters: World News

MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Marines leading one of NATO's biggest offensives against Taliban Islamic militants in Afghanistan are facing fierce resistance in some areas, bogged down by heavy gunfire, snipers and booby traps. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wmfZ1MCnsv4:e3Nl8lWwL2Y: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=wmfZ1MCnsv4:e3Nl8lWwL2Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=wmfZ1MCnsv4:e3Nl8lWwL2Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wmfZ1MCnsv4:e3Nl8lWwL2Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=wmfZ1MCnsv4:e3Nl8lWwL2Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/wmfZ1MCnsv4" height="1" width="1"/
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