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COMMENTS: Shok Valley Fastness
NBC Thursday had Jim Miklaszewski tell us how a band of Green Berets earned Silver Star medals for fighting in Afghanistan's Shok Valley. Now ABC's Martha Raddatz rehearses the same tale of their seven-hour mountain battle. Raddatz told us of a "daring air assault" against a "militant stronghold on the edge of a 10,000-foot peak." The commandoes "scaled the sheer rock face to the stronghold above" before being pinned down by gunfire and eventually retreating to the valley below. Raddatz made it seem like the guerrillas prevailed in their fastness but neither she nor Miklaszewski explicitly stated that the commando raid was defeated.
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