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Taliban's rare winter campaign kills another Canadian soldier
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Another Canadian soldier died and three more were wounded Wednesday, the latest victims of a rare winter campaign the Taliban says is aimed at littering the roads of Kandahar province with deadly makeshift bombs and the bodies of coalition troops.
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