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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 10 > Gates tours former Taliban town

Gates tours former Taliban town

By Elisabeth Bumiller / The Bulletin
March 10, 2010

NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban sanctuary in Helmand province, but the lone street of shops was so sleepy that it looked as if everyone had been told to stay home.

In a sense, they had.

“I wish....

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