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Afghan citizens talk quietly while U.S. paratroopers discuss how to question them about insurgent activity in the area during a three-day clearing operation with Afghan soldiers in a remote mountain village in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 2, 2012.

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Afghan citizens talk quietly while U.S. paratroopers discuss how to question them about insurgent activity in the area during a three-day clearing operation with Afghan soldiers in a remote mountain village in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 2, 2012.

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