Police and Coalition forces detained five members of the Haqqani Network who were behind IED attacks in Khost. The US hopes to deploy three of the four additional combat brigades into Afghanistan by the summer of 2009. Canada appears to have rejected a US request to extend the Afghan mission beyond 2011.
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