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...Even getting this far has not been easy. The U.S. and allied forces had run a hellish gauntlet over a boggy road coursing over gully beds and stony plains to this front near Mendzhavar. A mere 20 minutes from the center of Gardez, the surrounding villages belong to the enemy. "Everyone here is al Qaeda," says a nervous Afghan soldier pointing out houses from where a U.S.-Afghan column was ambushed last week. "We aren't safe passing through because we can't say which homes they're in and which ones they aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On al-Qaeda's Western Flank | 3/9/2002 | See Source »

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