U.S. Marines came under intense fire on Sunday after taking over a building in the heart of the last major Taliban bastion in Helmand province.Taliban fighters unleashed automatic gunfire at NATO helicopters flying in and out of the town of Marjah, and fired on Marines during a ceremony to raise the Afghan flag over the compound to mark progress in the offensive.
Captain Ryan Sparks compared the intensity of the fighting to the U.S.-led offensive against militants in the Iraqi town of Fallujah in 2004.
"In Fallujah, it was just as intense. But there, we started from the north and worked down to the south. In Marjah, we're coming in from different locations and working toward the centre, so we're taking fire from all angles," Sparks said.
I can't help but wonder what deals the CIA has made behind the scenes with Talib poppy growers. This area of Afghanistan is reported to be a center of the opium drug trade (producing over half the world's supply), and where there's a center of drug trade, there's CIA.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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