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Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more
than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may
not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a
trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials
have told McClatchy.
As it now stands, the administration's plan calls for sending three
Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.
and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. and a Marine brigade,
for a total of as many as 23,000 additional combat and support troops.
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The plan would fall well short of the 80,000 troops that Army Gen.
Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan,
suggested as a "low-risk option" that would offer the best chance to
contain the Taliban-led insurgency and stabilize Afghanistan.
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