Afghanistan: March 19, 2003

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 Taliban fighters attacked a government army outpost in the south and killed three soldiers. 

The US opened two new bases in the northeast along the Pakistan border. 

Using portable satellite communications dishes, the US is making TV and Internet access available to most troops in Afghanistan. 

Italian troops in eastern Afghanistan got into a gun battle with Taliban members, wounding one of them. 

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