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| | Operation Anaconda: Win-win, lose-lose |
 | | Operation Anaconda involved about 1,000 US troops, including Special Forces, 200 commandos from allies including Canada and Australia, and a couple of thousand Afghan forces, including a thousand-man detachment of the Afghan interim government. |
 | | On February 26, worshippers at a mosque were gunned down in the vicinity of the Pakistan Army's General Headquarters (GHQ), and then came last Sunday's attack on the heavily guarded church near the citadel of symbolism and power, the US Embassy in Islamabad. |
 | | The results of Operation Anaconda, which was declared a "victory" by the US, was followed by a day later by another attack on US bases and Afghan allied forces on Wednesday in Khost in eastern Afghanistan, a stark reminder of the limitations of US military power. |
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