THE U.S. MILITARY SAID WEDNESDAY THEIR AFGHAN ALLIES CAPTURED A KEY RI...

World | March 13, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00

The U.S. military said Wednesday their Afghan allies captured a key ridgeline in the battle for Shahi Kot in eastern Afghanistan and the less than 100 Taliban-al Qaeda left in the area were on the run. "It's a great success. It's a two-mile long area they seized," military spokesman Major Bryan Hilferty told reporters at Bagram, control point for "Operation Anaconda," after the capture of the ridgeline known as "The Whale."

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