Along the way, the M2M movement is expected to join forces with another disruptive force in the IT world: cloud computing.

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The committee recommends that the United Nations and the NATO force in Afghanistan, ISAF, join with the Afghan government to take over counter-narcotics operations from Britain.

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It is hard to associate some of the teenage lads and wheezing middle-aged men, hoping to join some informal village-based militia, with any kind of organised fighting force.

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