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  • n  a strongly fortified defensive structure

  • 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.
News & Articles

  • Assad answers Obama announcement with assault on last key rebel stronghold
    Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — President Bashar Assad has launched an offensive on the last major rebel stronghold in Syria. Opposition sources said the Syrian Army launched heavy artillery strikes on Aleppo on June 14 in wake of the announcement by the United States that it would supply weapons to the rebels. “But our friends [...]
    June 16, 2013 - World Tribune
  • Senior Libyan judge assassinated in country's east
    TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's official news agency says unidentified militants assassinated a senior Libyan judge in an eastern city known to be a stronghold of Islamic militants.
    June 16, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Defiance toward U.S. help of rebels
    In this government stronghold city, Syrians moved with an air of confidence Friday, defiantly dismissive of how the United States will raise the stakes of the country's bloody two-year civil war by stepping up support to the rebels.
    June 15, 2013 - CNN
Quotes

  • Robert Gates in USA Today
    Anbar province, once considered a stronghold of al-Qaeda, has been reclaimed for the Iraqi people,Gates said.
  • Robert Blackwill in Sify
    The US polity should stop talking about timelines and exit strategies and accept that the Taliban will inevitably control most of its historic stronghold in the Pashtun south,Blackwill wrote in his opinion piece published in Politico.
  • Robert Mugabe in Reuters South Africa
    The returns show that we are winning convincingly, that we have won in all the 26 constituencies in Harare, an MDC stronghold where we won in only one constituency in March. That is the trend,Mugabe said in footage broadcast on state television.

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