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On Thursday U.S. warplanes launched heavy air strikes in support of hundreds of Afghan militiamen battling Taliban fighters in the southwest of the country, Afghan and U.S. officials said on Thursday.  The U.S. military in Afghanistan said U.S. planes and helicopters had dropped a total of 35,000 pounds of ordnance on suspected Taliban positions in the Tor Ghar mountain area of Kandahar province, northeast of the town of Spin Boldak.

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