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Fri 10 Oct 2009US troop deployment to Afghanistan may depend on Iraq poll
THE US military may have to put on indefinite hold its plan to dispatch additional troops to Afghanistan if Iraq’s election does not take place on time in January.
Since 120,000 troops are needed to provide security for Iraq’s election, reinforcements for Afghanistan requested by Gen Stanley McChrystal, head of central command, will not be available until afterwards and, perhaps, not until a new Iraqi government is formed.
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