US bolsters Afghan troop presence
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- News Source: Daily Breeze | about 1 month agoIn her speech to business and civic leaders at the Torrance Marriott, Harman reiterated her focus on addressing corruption in the Afghan government, and argued that the United States should use its leverage to force a partial recount in the recent...
- News Source: The Mercury News | about 1 month agoA few hours after getting off a plane from America's war zones, Joe Biden slipped into a chair, shook off his jet lag and reflected on what he had seen...Then, he came to Afghanistan and shook his head. "It has deteriorated significantly," he said. "...
- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 month agoThe number of US troops in Afghanistan will reach 68,000 by the end of the year. The Obama administration's Afghanistan strategy review has been going on for weeks. Mr Obama has now indicated it is winding up. "We will have a completion of this...
- News Source: Politico | about 1 month agoWithout committing himself to specific troop increases, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye returned Tuesday from Afghanistan, seeming to fully embrace Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency strategy that would demand more...
- News Source: Associated Press | about 1 month agoRampant government corruption may derail the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan even if as many as 80,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to the war, the top military commander there has concluded, according to U.S. officials...
- News Source: Kansas City Star | about 1 month agoThe top military commander in Afghanistan says rampant government corruption may derail the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida even if as many as 80,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to the war.
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- Blog Source: www.empirechronicles.co.ukThe additional troops are primarily support forces — such as engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police, bringing the total increase Obama has approved for the war-torn nation to 34000. ...
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comPresident Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized -- and the Pentagon is deploying -- at least 13000 troops beyond that ...
- Blog Source: www.theepochtimes.comUS President Barack Obama's review of Afghanistan war strategy has exposed divisions among top advisers. ... Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has said little publicly about the issue of a troop increase for
- Blog Source: freedomeden.blogspot.comThe deployment of the support troops to Afghanistan brings the total increase approved by Obama to 34000. The buildup has raised the number of U.S. troops deployed to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan above the peak during the Iraq ...
- Blog Source: www.nwotruth.comThe deployment of the support troops to Afghanistan brings the total increase approved by Obama to 34000. The buildup has raised the number of U.S. troops deployed to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan above the peak during the Iraq ...
- Blog Source: talkislam.infoObama approves 13000 more troops to Afghanistan. In an unannounced move, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21000 he announced publicly in March, The Washington Post reported. The additional
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