Twenty-seven-year-old U.S. Army Sergeant John McCary was serving in a HUMINT (Human Intelligence) Team attached to Task Force 1-34 Armor, 1st Infantry Division in the al-Anbar province of Iraq.

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Mr. MICHAEL EISENSTAT (Washington Institute for Near East Policy): It has to be a much larger, a much more capable force and it probably has to include light and mechanized infantry, armor, light artillery, as well as special forces who are capable of conducting a counterinsurgency and counterterrorist type operations.

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The force includes about 800 troops on the ground in Mali, including an armor unit.

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The division had received deployment orders to be part of what was termed a follow-on force, and was preparing to move to the region with its heavy armor equipment.

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