Thursday, July 24, 2008

Pentagon eyes sending hundreds of troops to Afghanistan

24 Jul 2008
 
Top Pentagon leaders are expected to recommend soon that Defence Secretary Robert Gates order hundreds of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the next month or so, according to a senior military official. Officials have not ruled out a larger, brigade-sized unit before the end of the year that could be shifted to Afghanistan from a planned deployment to Iraq or moved from another location.
 

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