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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the president probably
won't make his decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan until
after the Nov. 7 presidential runoff in that country.
The Red Cross of Central Georgia is organizing a campaign to collect
care packages for Georgia National Guard troops in Afghanistan.
A soldier with the 48th brigade returned from Afghanistan to a ransacked and burglarized home.
Family members of deployed soldiers with the 48th Brigade's Delta
Company gathered in Milledgeville to celebrate the half-way mark
of the deployment to Afghanistan.
The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is at odds with some of her top Democratic Colleagues on Afghanistan.
Hundreds of people turned out for Alex French's funeral service, as the 31-year-old Milledgeville man was laid to rest Saturday with a military funeral.
The death toll from a suicide car bombing in Kabul has risen to 17.
Visitation for a 48th Brigade soldier who died in Afghanistan will be held Friday.
Among all Americans, the divide is almost even, with 48% in favor, 45%
opposed. Most of those opposed say Obama should begin to withdraw U.S.
troops rather than commit more.
At least 16 U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan so
far this month -- matching the American death toll for all of October
in 2008.
Sgt. Alex French IV, who was also a Bibb County deputy, died in Afghanistan when a suicide attack hit his convoy.
Officials say it may be weeks before President Barack Obama announces a
decision on whether to modify U.S. the strategy in Afghanistan or to
send more troops.
After nearly eight years of war, Afghanistan's security forces are
still plagued by corruption, high levels of absenteeism, a lack of
proper training and an excessive dependence on their American
counterparts.
The Central Georgia Red Cross recently received an $80,000 grant from the Department of Defense to support families of the 48th Brigade which is currently fighting in Afghanistan.
Half of all Americans, and six in 10 Democrats, oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
The Huskies were given stickers with the decal of the Macon-based 48th Bridage Combat Team to be worn on their helmets for the rest of the season.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in
Afghanistan, says in a confidential report that without additional
forces, the war against insurgents will end in failure.
A spokesman for U.S. and NATO forces says three American service
members died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in southern
Afghanistan.
A British soldier has been killed in an attack on a foot patrol in southern Afghanistan.
Troops trained in advanced trauma care could prevent up to 20% of
combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military's top medical board
says.
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