Washington (AFP) – US President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration will seek to foster national unity, organizers said Monday, as fears of renewed violence prompted the Pentagon to authorize a surge of troops ahead of the event. About 15,000 members of the National Guard have been readied for deployment, with 6,200 already on the ground in Washington following mob violence that broke out at the Capitol last week, General Daniel Hokanson, chief of the Defense Department’s National Guard Bureau, said. On inauguration day, Biden will lay a wreath in the presence of three former US presidents at Arlin…
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