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In Wanat, US Learns Value, Pain of Retreat

In Waygal Valley, leaving has helped the cause.

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 6, 2009 8:11 AM CDT

(Newser) – Days after the bloody battle that has come to be called the "Black Hawk Down" of Afghanistan, US troops left the the isolated Afghan village of Wanat. Fourteen months later, they haven’t returned, giving the Taliban free reign in the Waygal Valley—but...   Read full story »

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