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Sunday, October 17, 2004 Troops stage assaults on insurgents in Afghanistan By Terry Boyd, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Sunday, October 17, 2004 Terry Boyd / S&S Cool temperatures didn't make using cammo stick any easier as Pfc. Joshua Mealor, left, helped Pfc. Shannon Steele, get ready for an air assault into Afghanistan's mountains near the Pakistan border. Mealor and Steele are scouts with the 82nd Airborne Division. Terry Boyd / S&S Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne relaxed in the early morning sun Friday while an AH-64 Apache refueled at Firebase Asadabad. The attack helicopter escorted the CH-47 Chinook helo which...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/25/02 Asadabad, Kabul, Pul-i-Charkhi, Kandahar Taliban cemetery, Kandahar, Peshawar, Pakistan, Shamshatu refugee camp, Jerusalem, Israel, Barriers at Abu Dis, Dir al-Balah, Gaza, Berlin, Dresden, Geneva, Red Cross, Kartaly, Russia, Cape Canaveral, Atlas V ===================== Kabul =================== In Bagram, US soldiers hunt Al Qaeda who launched rockets near Asadabad. In Kabul, Afghans and the ISAF, International Security Assistance Force. In Kabul, from the Pakistan border, 1.5 million Afghan refugees have returned since ~1,800 families per day. In Pul-i-Charkhi, east of Kabul, Afghans arrive from Pakistan and Iran . ===================== Kandahar =================== In Kandahar,...