On Tuesday, 1 December, US President Barack Obama announced a decision to send 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan, bringing the total to nearly 100,000. Mr Obama had considered various troop increase proposals by the top US commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and the US ambassador in Kabul Karl Eikenberry.

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