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The washington post recently ran two detailed articles about confusion during heavy fighting in afghanistan last march, linked here ambush in takur ghar part i. The battle of takur ghar was a short but intense military engagement between united states special operations forces and alqaeda insurgents fought in march 2002, atop takur ghar mountain in afghanistan. A story of courage and sacrifice on takur ghar mountain new. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive. Takur ghar, which roughly translates from the pashto as tall mountain, is an imposing feature of the eastern ridge of the shahikot valley, reaching a height of some 10,469ft above sea level.
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