Posted by: zanshin, 2009-02-22 11:46

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Date: 2009-02-17 (Tuesday)
In the USA, the White House announced that 17,000 more troops would join the existing 65,000 Western troops in Afghanistan “to stabilise a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires.”






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