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Pakistani residents flee the fighting between Pakistani soldiers and the Taliban sit on a decorated carrier outside Torkham, a border town at the Khyber Pass between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where U.S. Army soldiers and Afghan National Army Commandos checked vehicles, April 29,2009. Torkham is the busiest port of entry between the two countries. The U.S. soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Battalion,19th Special Forces Group.

FLEEING THE FIGHTING

Pakistani residents flee the fighting between Pakistani soldiers and the Taliban sit on a decorated carrier outside Torkham, a border town at the Khyber Pass between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where U.S. Army soldiers and Afghan National Army Commandos checked vehicles, April 29,2009. Torkham is the busiest port of entry between the two countries. The U.S. soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Battalion,19th Special Forces Group.

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