U.S. Marines conduct a security patrol in the Nawa district in Helmand province, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2009. The Marines are assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Artur ShvartsbergFrom McClatchy News:
ZHARI DISTRICT, Afghanistan — Two miles from the gates of this isolated Canadian forward military base in southern Afghanistan is Sangsar, where the Taliban's harsh interpretation of Islam was born.
A few miles farther east is a school in Siah Choy where students learn to build roadside bombs for passing U.S. and Afghan troops or the farmers who welcome them. In Nakhonay, about six miles farther east, the Taliban store thousands of weapons to distribute in the region.
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