'', The New York Times, 4 October 2009

EXCERPT: "Insurgents besieged two American outposts in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, American and Afghan officials said, killing eight Americans and two Afghan policemen in a bold daylight strike that was the deadliest for American soldiers in more than a year. The attack took place in the Nuristan province, a remote area on the border with Pakistan. It began Saturday morning, when insurgents stormed the area, pounding the two American base camps with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Americans fought back, striking their attackers with helicopters, heavy guns and airstrikes, but the insurgents were persistent and the battled lasted into the afternoon, said Col. Wayne Shanks, a spokesman for NATO forces in Afghanistan. It was unclear whether insurgents made it inside either of the two compounds, but Colonel Shanks said that by the end of the battle, American forces still controlled the outposts. The Americans shared the compounds with Afghan security forces."

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See also:
'"What's the point? The Taliban will be back within a week"', Times Online, 4 October 2009
'For US troops, Afghanistan's green zone "like Vietnam without the napalm"', Dallas Morning News, 4 October 2009
'', AFP, 4 October 2009
'Deployments and diplomacy', Newsweek, 3 October 2009

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