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To: StanX Long who wrote (61862)	3/11/2002 12:11:13 AM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

"OT" Retreat of Afghan Allies Forced G.I.'s to Take Lead in Fighting By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER nytimes.com ASHINGTON, March 9 — American troops were unexpectedly forced to do the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan this week after an allied Afghan general retreated under withering fire from foes who might have been tipped off about the attack, senior military officers said. The Afghan retreat and subsequent battlefield confusion in the operation's early hours led swiftly to American combat deaths and allowed hundreds of fighters from Al Qaeda to surge into the fight from hide-outs in nearby mountains and valleys, these officials said, creating a massed enemy force larger than American commanders anticipated. Soldiers from the Army's 10th Mountain and 101st Airborne Divisions moved quickly to fill the breach left by their bloodied Afghan allies.