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A U.S. Marine from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines takes a position in the village of Noghara in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) 

Marines push deeper into Afghan towns

U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001.

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