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To: John Carragher who wrote (15805)11/10/2003 7:00:24 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793756
 
I am always suspicious when I read about an Airborne drop of this size. Why not go in by chopper? Everybody wants to get a "combat jump."
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U.S. Forces in Airborne Assault on Rebels in 2 Afghan Areas
By CARLOTTA GALL

NEW YORK TIMES

ABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 10 — American forces opened a large-scale airborne assault against suspected Taliban and other antigovernment forces in two mountainous northeastern provinces over the weekend, a United States military spokesman said today.

The assault is the first big sweep by the American military against these fighters in the remote mountains of the Hindu Kush, and it suggests that militants have spread their influence to new areas.

Soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division were dropped by air on Friday into Kunar and Nuristan provinces "to clear the area of anticoalition and antigovernment fighters," an American military spokesman, Col. Rodney Davis, said in a brief press statement.

Local residents and aid workers had been reporting increased air and vehicle activity in the area for several days. Forces loyal to a renegade commander, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has declared a holy war against American forces in Afghanistan, are thought to be present in the area and may be the target of the operation. United States troops based in Kunar Province have come under repeated rocket attacks in recent months.

Both provinces share a rugged mountainous border with Pakistan, where sympathy for the Taliban and Mr. Hekmatyar remains strong.
nytimes.com
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