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Joint Offensive Against Taliban Begins

AMERICAN Marines and Afghan soldiers yesterday launched the first offensive since US President Barack Obama announced a troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.

Hundreds of troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines and the Marine reconnaissance unit Task Force Raider were dropped by helicopter and MV-22 Osprey aircraft behind Taliban lines in the northern end of the Now Zad Valley of Helmand province, according to Marine spokesman Major William Pelletier.

A second, larger force pushed northward in Now Zad.

There were no reports of casualties.

 

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