Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Operation Haven Denial was a five-day U.S-led operation (July 2-6, 2003) against Taliban remnants and Al Qaeda fighters in the Paktika and Khost provinces of Afghanistan. The operation involved 800 U.S soldiers backed by more than 500 Italian paratroopers and by 25 aircraft. One illegal border checkpoint was dismantled and one small cache of weapons was confiscated. It was the biggest operation in Afghanistan since Operation Anaconda in March 2002. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.