By JASON STRAZIUSO, The Associated Press
Thursday, July 2, 2009 11:09 pm
NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants Thursday after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.
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