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Flashback: Obama adds another brigade to Afghanistan troop surge | Obama eyes 3 more brigades for Afghanistan | Top U.S. general boosts troop pledge to Afghanistan | Obama’s planned troop surge in Afghanistan could lead to more violence: ISAF | ‘Reconstruction’ efforts in Khandahar not apparent to Afghanis | ‘Some’ Troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2011: McKay | America to assume command in Afghanistan | Canadian military acquiring new helicopters, drones | Obama promises 10,000 more troops for Afghanistan

Allan Woods, Toronto Star
April 4, 2009

An additional 3,000 troops would be provided to help the country through its August elections

STRASBOURG, France—NATO allies agreed to send an extra 3,000 soldiers to Afghanistan to help stabilize the country through presidential elections scheduled for this summer.

At the end of an annual summit, the alliance’s 28 leaders gave their approval to a new U.S. strategy for the eight-year mission that involves more troops on the ground accompanied by civilian experts.

Leaders also agreed to provide more money to help boost the Afghan police and army numbers and capability.

“When it comes to Afghanistan, the bottom line is this,” said outgoing secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. “This alliance has delivered.”

The more contentious issue of long-term troop commitments, however, was unresolved.

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Flashback: Fire Consumes Beijing Skyscraper, Unlike WTC7 Building Does Not Collapse | National Post Columnist: Who dares to question the ‘Big Lie of 9/11′? | NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed

Stephen C Webster, Rawstory.com
April 4, 2009

A team of scientists claim to have unearthed startling data from dust and debris gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.

In a study published by the Open Chemical Physics Journal — a peer-reviewed, scientific publication — Steven E. Jones and Niels Harrit level a stark allegation: that within the dust and rubble of the World Trade Center towers lays evidence of “a highly engineered explosive,” contrary to all federal studies of the collapses.

“We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center,” reads the paper’s abstract. “One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).”

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