From CBS News:
Soldiers Conduct Covert Operations Against Taliban to Prevent Voter Suppression in Upcoming Election.
(CBS) With the presidential election just days away, the marine mission in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan has taken on even greater significance. CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan provides this first-hand account of one covert operation:
Echo Company is heading out to a known Taliban village just a mile from their small combat outpost deep in southern Helmand.
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My Comment: One sentence in the story struck me right away .... In the month and a half since Echo company fought their way in, they've never been to this village without getting into a fight.
They have been in a fight everyday since they arrived. This is a war zone in every conceivable way.
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