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Afghan blasts kill two US Marines

Updated on 12 July 2009

Source PA News

Bomb blasts killed two US Marines in Afghanistan's dangerous south, where thousands of American forces have deployed in a massive operation to drive Taliban fighters from the country's opium poppy region, officials said.

Some 4,000 Marines moved into Helmand province this month, the largest Marine operation in Afghanistan since the 2001 US invasion.

They have met little head-on resistance but remain vulnerable to guerrilla tactics like suicide and roadside bombs.

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