WASHINGTON (AFP) - The NATO commander in Afghanistan on Tuesday predicted a surge of US troops will reverse the momentum of Taliban insurgents within a year and ensure their ultimate defeat.
 
The additional 30,000 troops ordered by President Barack Obama will reverse insurgent momentum “by this time next year” and cut off the Taliban from the [...]

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By Suadad al-Salhy 
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least four car bombs killed 112 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, leaving charred buses and scattered body parts in a blow to the government’s efforts to show it can defend Iraqis before U.S. troops withdraw in 2011.
The blasts could undermine Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s claims to have brought security [...]

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By James Keller, The Canadian Press 
VANCOUVER, B.C. - The use of an RCMP Taser against Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver’s airport was “inappropriate” and the explanations of the four officers involved weren’t credible, says the force’s independent watchdog.
The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP released a harshly critical report Tuesday into what happened the night [...]

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