Video: the fighting season

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Even before a much-touted fall offensive in Kandahar Province, the United States suffered its deadliest month yet in Afghanistan with 66 Americans killed in July. GlobalPost’s Kevin Sites looks at what U.S. and coalition forces are up against in Afghanistan as the fighting season begins.

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