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U.S. soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment take aim at unseen militants during an operation to seize Babur, a Taliban-controlled village in Kandahar province's Arghandab valley. (Dion Nissenbaum/MCT) (Dion Nissenbaum / MCT)

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