Afghanistan: October 2, 2002

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In central Afghanistan, local authorities alerted US troops to an ammunition dump in a cave. The cave was surrounded by trenches and other fortifications, but no one was there when American troops showed up. There were 540,000 rounds of heavy machine-gun (.50 caliber and 14.5mm) ammunition, that was removed. Engineers blew up the cave and fortifications. 

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