Friday, February 23, 2007

1000 British, 3000 American Troops, Possibly More Australian Troops To Be Sent To Southern Afghanistan

* Extra British troops are to be sent to southern Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Des Browne has confirmed... The move, which the BBC understands involves more than 1,000 personnel, comes as about 1,600 troops are being withdrawn from Iraq...
Read the story at
BBC.co.uk

* Australia says coalition forces in Afghanistan are preparing for a do-or-die battle with the Taliban. An Australian military reconnaissance group has been sent to Afghanistan to looking at increasing troops numbers in the south of the country.
Read this story at
RadioAustralia.net.au

* And last but not least... NewsMax.com had this story last Thursday, February 15, 2007, that went in part like this... The Pentagon announced Wednesday [Feb. 14th] that about 3,000 soldiers who had been scheduled to go to Iraq would be sent to Afghanistan instead. That puts the U.S. presence there at about 27,000 - the highest of the war - with 15,000 serving as part of the NATO-led force and another 12,000 special operations forces and trainers... Troops from Canada, Britain, the Netherlands and the United States have been doing most of the fighting and leaders of those countries have been lobbying the other 22 allied countries to do more...
Read this story at
NewsMax.com

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