SUPPORT THE TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN (RAW VIDEO)

Our troops in Afghanistan need more support than ever before as they are into the second week of a major offensive on the Taliban in Marjah, Afghanistan.

This video with appropriate music is a compilation of pictures taken on the battlefield.

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U.S. MARINES GET THEIR WOUNDED OFF BATTLEFIELD IN AFGHANISTAN (LIVE VIDEO)

The song is "No One Gets Left Behind" and it is an appropriate background for this video showing U.S. Marines engaged in battle in Afghanistan and making sure their wounded are taken off the battlefield.

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U.S. MARINES ARE BOGGED DOWN IN THE SNOW IN AFGHANISTAN (RAW VIDEO)

It isn't only in the United States where snow is hampering driving. In this video you see a U.S. Marine convoy caught in the snows in central Afghanistan. War is tough enough, but trying to fight a war in the snow is almost impossible. Ask Hitler. His decision to invade Russia in World War II was the beginning of the end for the once powerful Third Reich.

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FRIGHTENING VIDEO OF U.S. CONVOY AMBUSHED BY TALIBAN

This is a very frightening video because you are right inside a U.S. Humvee which has just been ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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BLAST KILLS 13 IN IRAQ'S ANBAR PROVINCE

Anbar Province was the centerpiece for bragging rights on how well "the surge" worked in Iraq, but today a blast in Ramadi killed 13 indicating the war is far from over in Iraq.

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Blast Kills 13 In Capital Of Iraq's Anbar Province

by The Associated Press
http://tiny.cc/8urEx

A suicide car bomb exploded Thursday outside the gate of the main government compound in the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, killing at least 13 people, including four police, a health official said.

The attacker detonated his explosive-packed car at the compound housing the governor's office, police headquarters and courts in downtown Ramadi.

The province, where al-Qaida-backed Sunni insurgents once held sway, has seen a rise in attacks against security forces and government officials in recent months. The incident also comes amid fears that next month's elections will stoke political violence.

INTENSE AND VIOLENT: NEVER SEEN BEFORE VIDEO OF U.S. TROOPS IN ACTION AGAINST TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN

This is a really intense and violent video never seen before of U.S. troops in action against the Taliban in Zabul, Afghanistan.

The fighting is non-stop.

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YOUNG AFGHAN BOY DIRECTS U.S. TROOPS IN ATTACK ON TALIBAN (RAW VIDEO)

This is a very unusual video because you get to see and hear a young Afghan boy directing U.S. troops on where to fire their weapons during an attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

WARNING: The young Afghan boy has learned how to curse in English.

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TALIBAN SNIPERS ATTACK U.S. FORCES NEAR MARJAH

NYT: Snipers imperil forces in Afghanistan

Work of several well-trained marksmen punctuates offensive in Marja

By C. J. Chivers
The New York Times
http://tiny.cc/bPSdC (Slide show with 16 slides)

MARJA, Afghanistan - In five days of fighting, the Taliban have shown a side not often seen in nearly a decade of American military action in Afghanistan: the use of snipers, both working alone and integrated into guerrilla-style ambushes.

Five Marines and two Afghan soldiers have been struck here in recent days by bullets fired at long range. That includes one Marine fatally shot and two others wounded in the opening hour of a four-hour clash on Wednesday, when a platoon with Company K of the Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, was ambushed while moving on foot across a barren expanse of flat ground between the clusters of low-slung mud buildings.

Almost every American and Afghan infantryman present has had frightening close calls. Some of the shooting has apparently been from Kalashnikov machine guns, the Marines say, mixed with sniper fire.

The near misses have included lone bullets striking doorjambs beside their faces as Marines peeked around corners, single rounds cracking by just overhead as Marines looked over mud walls, and bullets slamming into the dirt beside them as they ran across the many unavoidable open spaces in the area they have been assigned to clear.

On Wednesday, firing came from primitive compounds, irrigation canals and agricultural fields as the bloody struggle between the Marines and the Taliban for control of the northern portion of this Taliban enclave continued for a fifth day.

In return, Company K used mortars, artillery, helicopter attack gunships and an airstrike in a long afternoon of fighting, which ended, as has been the pattern for nearly a week, with the waning evening light.