Posted on 09/15/2010 5:17:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ASHOQEH, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Capt. Brant Auge swept his hand across a satellite map of southern Afghanistan and pointed to a dark band of river-fed vineyards, pomegranate groves and marijuana fields arcing through an otherwise barren valley.
The band is what U.S. troops in this Taliban stronghold call "The Green Zone" — a fertile belt of vegetation crawling with insurgents targeted in a U.S.-led operation. The operation, which began slowly on Wednesday, could mark one of the most critical stages of the nearly nine-year war.
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