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US-Präsident Obama erhöht, vorerst ohne neue Strategie, die Truppen, während sich die Situation verschlechtert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29769/1.html

"This is not a temporary force uplift," McKiernan said at a Pentagon news conference. - The bulk of the initial influx of U.S. troops will go to Taliban strongholds in the ethnic Pashtun heartland of southern Afghanistan, where foreign and Afghan troops are, "at best, stalemated,"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803373_pf.html


From Information Clearing House

US forces killed at least one child, video footage obtained by Reuters on Wednesday showed, in an air strike in western Afghanistan that police say killed 12 civilians and US forces said killed 16 militants.

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From Information Clearing House



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