Valentine's Day Weekend, Afghanistan

UPDATE: Taliban send suicide bombers against a Marine position--successfully repelled.***Michael Yon on the line.

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More. AP: Caught in the open: a firefight with the Taliban

NPR: IEDs everywhere. American medics treat wounded Taliban.

And NY Times, Reuters and Huffpo leading with a rocket that went astray and killed civilians.