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Brought in a lot of weapons, set traps, land mines throughout the area there. and now we're hearing that 90% of the population remain in that town trapped by these ied belts that are sort of strung through the terrain. how are you minimizing the loss of life for, you know, both you guys and the civilians there in that area, taking on these challenges? >> well, i tell you, kyra, the planning that we did for this, instead of going headlong into the prepared ied belts on the out skirts of the city, we did airborne assaults into specific objectives in the interior of the city to bypass those and t...
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