PM Brown's strong support for Bush on Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq came as the US president was ending a week's EU tour which featured confrontations but produced progress in several areas. Brown's announcement of additional troops to Afghanistan was designed to bolster the NATO mission there at a time when the alliance had been accused of responding slowly to re-emerging threats from the Taliban and tying its own hands with individual limits on certain operations. US defence officials urged NATO allies to contribute more forces and let those there operate more aggressively.

Britain has 7,800 troops in Afghanistan, second only to the US, which has 34,000, some operating ...

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