March 05, 2002 (vol. 112, iss. 87) • Page Image 7
…The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 5, 2002 - 7 Number of U.S. troops increase in Afghanistan WASHINGTON (AP) - As many as nine American soldiers have died in a U.S.-led assault in Afghanistan - eight killed when troops on two helicop- ters took enemy fire in the largest offensive of the five-month war against ter- rorists, Pentagon officials said yesterday. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said enemy forces had sustained "much larger numbe...…

















































