US allies await decision on Afghanistan
The US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, is reported to have asked for up to forty-thousand more soldiers to head to the region. And he’s hoping many of those troops will come from outside the US. The World’s Laura Lynch reports that other coalition countries are concerned about the future of the military operations there.
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