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Army Troops Deployed Near Bagram

Aired November 29, 2001 - 16:19   ET

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JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: This report in from our colleagues at the Pentagon. Pentagon officials telling CNN that more than 50 U.S. Army troops from the 10th Mountain Division have now been deployed to an airfield near Bagram, Afghanistan, that's up there in the north, northeast, to provide security so that the airfield may be used in the near future for military operations.

This airfield brings to three the number of Afghan airfields under the control of U.S. military security forces. The bases are expected to be used in a variety of capacities ranging from delivering humanitarian goods to combat operations.

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