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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Joel Brinkley / The Bulletin
January 18, 2009
In a gunbattle this week, NATO troops killed 12 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan — and stopped a would-be suicide bomber. The fight got little attention because, sadly, in Afghanistan this is more or less routine.
The Afghan conflict now takes more lives each month than the war....
