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WASHINGTON: Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell says the first of 30,000 additional troops being sent to Afghanistan have begun to arrive.
![]() General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of United States Forces Afghanistan, delivers a speech to the Conference of Defence Associations in Ottawa December 16, 2009. [Agencies] |
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Morrell says "the surge has begun in earnest."
Officials say the goal is to have all 30,000 troops in place by the end of next summer.