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Published 11/03/2009 by Times Live South Africa

Afghanistan: US helicopter assault.

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Independent filmmaker, Danfung Dennis was embedded with the US marines when on July 2nd, 2009 the US launched a major helicopter assault into an insurgent stronghold in the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan “to break...

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