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Article: AFGHANISTAN - Jan 17 - Allies Consider Extra Troops For Afghanistan.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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The US and the UK are considering deploying more troops in Afghanistan, in the light of other Nato countries' failure to send reinforcements. Last September, General James Jones, then Nato's top commander, called for the alliance's 26 member countries to send 2,500 more soldiers to the turbulent south of the country following tougher than expected resistance from the Taliban insurgency. But during the four subsequent months, only Poland has announced a large-scale deployment, accelerating plans to dispatch a 1,000-strong battalion. A few other countries have declared their readiness to help with airlifts, in the case of France, or to send companies of about 100 soldiers ...
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