Marines Pay A Price Trying To Secure An Afghan Hot Spot

Los Angeles Times - Top News, Los Angeles Times
Sat, 01/22/2011 - 9:33pm

What happened to them in Sangin district of Helmand province shows the sacrifices in a campaign aimed at crippling the Taliban in a stronghold and helping extricate the U.S. from a decadelong war.Marines tell of snipers who fire from "murder holes" cut into mud-walled compounds. Fighters who lie in wait in trenches dug around rough farmhouses clustered together for protection.

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