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Fri 11 Nov 2008US to move five new brigades to Afghanistan
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today he expected to move five combat brigades into Afghanistan next year and wanted at least some of them in place before the country's election next autumn, stressing this was a top priority.
Washington had initially said it would send one brigade in January and three later in the year.
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