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The Setting
Sangin was the most violent district in Afghanistan, a remote farmland in southern Helmand Province at the far south of the country. Beginning in 2006, British forces defended the government compound next to the district market, while the Taliban controlled the outlying fields where poppy was grown in abundance. To profit from the opium export, the Taliban planted thousands of land mines around the British outposts and attacked every patrol that sallied forth. Afghan officials never ventured beyond the market. Helicopters provided resupply only at night. Daylight flying was too dangerous. By 2010, Sangin was isolated and under siege.
Then the U.S. Marines were sent in.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 2/1/2021 9:26:57 AM
A Greenfield man has pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing an unregistered firearm after detonating a homemade car bomb in his neighbor’s vehicle in December 2018.
Alex Arsenault, 35, made the plea at a federal court hearing on Wednesday.
The case began at 9:14 a.m. on Dec. 1, 2018, when Greenfield police received a call from Schoolhouse Road about an explosion at the home of Leela and James Conway. “They heard a loud noise earlier in the morning, it was like a really huge bang,” Police Chief Brian Giammarino recalled the victims telling him, before going outside to discover that the blast had come from inside their Jeep Grand Cherokee, which had been parked outside. “There was debris from this blast like 75 feet out in a lot of directions,” Giammarino said.