The war that just won't end: the hunt goes on in Afghanistan

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http://www.afgha.com/?af=article&sid=35125

Sunday Herald
13 July 2003
By Nick Meo

The troops were told the big combat operations were over ... but the Taliban are back, and the killing continues

The medics are strapping themselves into body armour and checking magazines of ammunition in the pre-dawn darkness before heading out of Kandahar airport and into hostile territory.

It is a routine enough mission -- arrive unannounced at a village near the Pakistan border and set up a clinic.

But in the deserts of Southern Afghanistan, once the Taliban's heartland, attacks on US forces and Western aid workers are on the increase.

'Up in Kabul or Bagram they may run medical missions,' one soldier says, 'but down here they run combat missions where they do medical work. Every time you go outside the airport gates you can get shot at.'

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1. When is the last time Bush mentioned Afghanistan?

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2. He's afraid he can't pronounce it. n/t

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4. That never stops him from saying "nukular"

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3. From his July 4th speech in Ohio:

"The 23,000 men and women of Wright Patt, military and civilian, have been crucial to our victories in Afghanistan and in Iraq. (Applause.) "

Victory? WIth victories like that you don't need defeats.