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Published 12/18/2008 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Barack Obama administration will inherit an urgent crisis in Afghanistan and must increase U.S. and NATO troop levels there while enlarging the Afghan army, a U.S. think tank recommended on Thursday.
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