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Taliban Claim Victory as US Quits Base

Insurgents take control of remote outpost where 8 troops were killed last week

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 9, 2009 8:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Taliban claimed to have won a major victory over the US yesterday as American troops abandoned a remote base in eastern Afghanistan where eight soldiers were killed in a firefight last weekend. "The white flag of the Taliban is raised above Kamdesh,"...   Read full story »

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