Oct. 4, 2009 at 11:37pm
Reblogged from inothernews
THE SPACE BETWEEN During a lull in a firefight with Taliban militants, U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan Christie, of Washington, Ind. takes cover at the edge of a muddy irrigation canal, in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Taliban militants engaged the Marine patrol Sunday. The firefight came after hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border Saturday, killing eight U.S. soldiers and capturing more than 20 Afghan security troops in the deadliest assault against U.S. forces in more than a year. (Photo: AP / Brennan Linsley via the Chicago Tribune)