A soldier from Golf Battery 4th 317 stands atop a vehicle as they prepare to go out on night patrol at Forward Operating Base Airborne, near the town of Maidan Shar, Wardak province, Afghanistan. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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U.S. to send 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan

The Canadian Press - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 extra U.S. troops to Afghanistan on an accelerated timetable that will have the first Marines there as early as Christmas and all forces in place by summer. But he'll also declare Tuesday night that troops will start coming home just one year later.

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