A trench-level view of war in Afghanistan

Friday, March 8, 2002

By Jonathan Ewing, The Associated Press

SIRKANKEL, Afghanistan -- It had been a freezing night in a dry riverbed, and just after dawn, the shells from Taliban and al-Qaida guns started whistling in.

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