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Last week, CBS' Elizabeth Palmer was in Afghanistan to show us reinforcements from the USArmy's Tenth Mountain Division arrive in Kabul. Now ABC's Martha Raddatz takes a helicopter over frigid mountains to Camp Shank, the division's tent city in Lowgar Province. The soldiers' role will be to protect the Kabul-Kandahar highway from guerrilla attacks and criminal kidnappings. Raddatz explained that the troops' mission is similar to what it would have been in Iraq but the country "is far different, nearly twice the size and largely rural." President Barack Obama "may soon find that it is easier to get 25,000 additional troops into Afghanistan than it will be getting them out."
Andrew Tyndall 1/31/09 1:19:09 am

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