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* The United States will send about 20,000 more soldiers into Afghanistan next year in a bid to make the country secure enough for elections expected there in the fall, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Friday following a meeting with Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay and other allied governments. The troop surge — one of the largest single reinforcements of coalition armies since the ouster of the Taliban in 2001 — has already begun… CanWest News Service *