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"We go there often," Brig.-Gen. Guy Laroche, commander of the Canadian troops in Afghanistan, said of the road they were using. "It's something that we do on a regular basis."
The U.S. troop expansion, which increases the number of U.S. forces deployed to Afghanistan by more than 10 per cent, follows months of U.S. efforts to persuade NATO allies to provide extra combat forces."NATO's need is in the south at the moment, but what the U.S. has found is that most NATO countries are not willing to deploy forces to conduct combat operations where they're needed most," said Seth Jones, an Afghanistan expert at RAND Corp.See the full content of this document
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Canadian Soldier Dies in Roadside Blast
Another injured in routine patrol 10 km north of Kandahar City
By Allison LamperthKANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Trooper Richard Renaud fr...See the full content of this document
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