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- Operation Anaconda is designed to squeeze the life out of a Taliban and al-Qaeda stronghold dug deep into the Shah-i-Kot mountains of eastern Afghanistan.
- The count still doesn't include absentee ballots from Saratoga County (a Tedisco stronghold), Washington County (a Murphy stronghold), and only shows 64 absentees counted from .
- But the Ground Zero for that tragedy Boston, the stronghold of American Catholicism is one city the Pope will not be visiting.