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REGION: Asia-Pacific
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Afghanistan and the War on Terror
SLIDE SHOW Posted: March 18, 2008   
Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency Campaigns FLASH VERSION
In the fall of 2007, New York Times Magazine contributing writer Elizabeth Rubin and photographer Lynsey Addario shadowed U.S. forces in the Korengal Valley in northeastern Afghanistan, an area along the Pakistani border known for its insurgency. Warning: Some of the following photographs contain graphic imagery.
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Injured Afghan Boy, Khalid, 7, sits outside of the medical tent of a U.S. military base after elders from a village claimed he was injured by shrapnel from a bomb dropped near his home by American troops. American forces admitted to dropping a bomb in the area and said the boy was most likely injured in the attack, but they could not be 100 percent certain.
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Injured Afghan Boy
Khalid, 7, sits outside of the medical tent of a U.S. military base after elders from a village claimed he was injured by shrapnel from a bomb dropped near his home by American troops. American forces admitted to dropping a bomb in the area and said the boy was most likely injured in the attack, but they could not be 100 percent certain.
Photo Credit: Lynsey Addario for New York Times
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