Word: chagatai
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...attack on Chagatai ridge begins at 3:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, when General Moammar Hassan of the Northern Alliance shouts into his radio, "Advance forwards. We are ready to start the war now." Twenty yards to the left of the command bunker where he stands, a T-55 tank opens up with its main gun, and the assault is on. Northern Alliance artillery shells and 82-mm mortars whiz overhead as a 50-cal. gun pops individual rounds at Taliban front lines, 1,000 yds. away across a small dip in the rolling brown hills...
...stays at his post, calling for reinforcements and correcting the coordinates for the artillery piece that is holding up his advance. On the third attack, his men use light artillery to take out the left bunker and find six dead Arab fighters inside. As night falls, the Alliance takes Chagatai ridge, but at a cost of six dead and 30 wounded. The Taliban again proves it will not give up without a fight...
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