Jury still out on US Afghan-Pak strategy in 2010

KABUL (AFP) – The US strategy to defeat Al-Qaeda and the Taliban tripled American troops fighting in Afghanistan and doubled missile strikes in Pakistan, but hangs in the balance after a year of record violence. Since taking office, President Barack Obama has ordered more than 50,000 extra troops into battle to reverse Taliban momentum and build up Afghan government forces so that combat troops could start leaving in 2011. There are more than 140,000 US-led NATO troops on the ground — two-thirds of them American — and 2010 has proved to be the deadliest year on record with the deaths of at least 683 foreign soldiers. Eclipsing the toll of 521 soldiers last year, on average two NATO…

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Jury still out on US Afghan-Pak strategy in 2010

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