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Archive for February 8th, 2010

By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
 KABUL - It was six in the morning on Oct. 3, 2009, when insurgents began their assault on Combat Outpost Keating, a remote area in Nuristan in eastern Afghanistan.  The attack started with small-arms fire, but soon escalated as up to 300 militants — it’s unclear exactly how [...]