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COMMENTS: Spring is Late this Year
NBC had Jim Maceda file an In Depth update from the USArmy's Tenth Mountain Division in the Kunar province of Afghanistan. A seasonal offensive by Taliban guerrillas had been expected by now, yet so far "it is too calm." So GIs have turned to construction--a new footbridge, a road, a school--and building trust with village elders rather than fighting. Maceda reported that a doubling of the size of the US military presence to 10,000 in Afghanistan's eastern sector and the erection of a 12-mile fence along the border with Pakistan may have slowed the Taliban weapons build-up. When mortars rained down from surrounding mountains, Maceda found the fire too light to signal the start of the dreaded offensive but it did finally end that lull.
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