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Article: Obama seeks study on local leaders for troop decision; Afghan provinces to be analyzed Details should help president determine need
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- The Washington Post
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- October 29, 2009
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President Obama has asked senior officials for a province-by-
province analysis of Afghanistan to determine which regions are
being managed effectively by local leaders and which require
international help, information that his advisers say will guide his
decision on how many additional U.S. troops to send to the battle.
Obama made the request in a meeting Monday with Vice President
Biden and a small group of senior advisers helping him decide
whether to expand the war. The detail he is now seeking also
reflects the administration's turn toward Afghanistan's provincial
governors, tribal leaders and local militias as potentially more
effective partners in the effort than a historically weak ...