Britain will be under heavy pressure to cut back its forces in southern Iraq, now numbering about 9,000, before it takes over control of Nato forces in Afghanistan in April next year. Britain will command Nato's allied rapid reaction force, to be based in southern Afghanistan. Nato will later set up another headquarters to the east of the country.
Good read today at the Guardian Unlimited on this and about what Major General Douglas Lute had to say about al-Qaida fighters in Iraq moving to the "vast ungoverned spaces" of the Horn of Africa once conditions in Iraq got too tough for them. Click it out at GUARDIAN UNLIMITED.
AubreyJ says: Hope that day never comes! What I mean is… I hope like hell we have either captured or killed Zarqawi and all of his head members before they ever get a chance to move to Africa or anywhere else as far as that goes…
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