U.S. troop surge for Afghanistan to start January

Cornwallis, N.S. -- The United States will send about 20,000 more soldiers into Afghanistan next year in a bid to make the country secure enough for elections expected there in the fall, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Friday following a meeting with Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay and other allied governments. The troop surge -- one of the largest single reinforcements of coalition armies since the ouster of the Taliban in 2001 -- has already begun...

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