US post in Afghan hamlet a ‘bullet magnet’
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CHAHAR QOLBAH — In Chahar Qolbah, a deserted hamlet on the edge of the village of Jelawar in southern Afghanistan, US paratroopers have taken over an old Taliban base and turned it into a forward combat post.
Patrol base Lugo, named after one of the soldiers’ comrades who was killed in action, is “a bullet magnet,” joked one of the men from Alpha Battery 1-320 of the 101st Airborne Division
The post is in the Arghandab Valley in the heart of Kandahar province — cradle and bastion of the Taliban insurgency.
Riddled with bullets and some of it in ruins, the building has been transformed into a fortified camp, with machine gun posts on the roof, sandbags, camouflage netting and sniper nests.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100914com3.html
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