NATO: We’ll send 5,000 more troops

Morning Star Online, Wednesday 02 December 2009

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NATO troops in Afghanistan

The chief of NATO has announced that the Western military alliance will send 5,000 more troops into Afghanistan, declaring that “this is not just America’s war.”

NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke just hours after US President Barack Obama announced the new deployment of 30,000 fresh US troops to Afghanistan and called for additional commitments from NATO allies.

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