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NATO commanders called on the Taliban to surrender as troops dug in Monday for a major assault on one of the last insurgent strongholds in southern Afghanistan, sending thousands of residents fleeing. The Taliban remained defiant as civilians of the Marjah plain accused the militia, which is leading an eight-year insurgency

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