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"The fact that they couldn't tell the difference between a CIA guesthouse and the IOM compound shows that their system of command has been weakened, that it's no longer that effective, " he said.
WSJ: Taliban Assault Shakes Kabul
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As the sun dipped to the horizon on Friday, and the temperature dropped with it, the Marines moved the command post to a neighboring compound, an empty corral with eight-foot mud-and-rock walls.
WSJ: Ahead of Marjah Offensive, Afghan Officials Sought to Negotiate With Taliban
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On Friday morning, the colonel returned to the staging area, where his staff had set up a forward command post -- a tent and a series of antennas in the compound yard of an abandoned three-room house with barrel-vault ceilings made of mud brick.
WSJ: Ahead of Marjah Offensive, Afghan Officials Sought to Negotiate With Taliban
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The compound, located in the Taliban's "spiritual" capital of Kandahar, housed command and control facilities and was a legitimate military target, a Pentagon official told CNN.
CNN: President notifies Congress about troop deployment
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It's a beautiful spring morning at what was a palace compound and is now a vast U.S. military base, headquarters for the U.S. command here.
NPR: U.S. Troops in Baghdad Make Fishing a Tradition
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Soon after the SEALs had raided the Abbottabad command, Pakistani officials on the ground were interrogating bin Laden's wives and children at the compound who told them that bin Laden had just been killed.
CNN: Are 'Swift Boat' attacks on Obama bogus?