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... but months of pressure to persuade European allies to fill shortfalls have failed to produce sufficient combat units for the dangerous southern and eastern provinces.
U.S. officials acknowledged last week that allied reluctance is forcing the Pentagon — already stretched in Iraq — to consider sending 3,000 more U.S. Marines in April for an expected upsurge in Taliban activity after Afghanistan's snows thaw.
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European reluctance forces US to consider sending Marines to Afghanistan
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:35 AM EST
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I believe that in the near future, we may see a redeployment of troops out of Iraq, into Afghanistan, in a surge similar to the one that we have seen in this past year in Iraq.
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