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Obama rules out reduction in Afghanistan troops

Source: The Guardian
Kabul : Afghanistan | about 1 month ago  
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Obama rules out Afghanistan troop cuts Obama says he has yet to decide on general's request for more troops in Afghanistan, in meeting with congressional leaders John McCain, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner after the meeting with Barack Obama...
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  • News Source: ITN | about 1 month ago
    Mr Obama told key members of Congress that he would be rigorous and deliberate in his review of Afghanistan. But he added he understood the urgency of turning around the situation on the ground there. The president held the cross-party private...
  • News Source: B92 | about 1 month ago
    President Barack Obama has said his review of Afghan strategy will not look at pulling out or cutting troop levels...But a source said he did not pledge to increase troop numbers as his top general in Afghanistan wants. The meeting came on the eve of...
  • News Source: Napa Valley Register | about 1 month ago
    Scripps Howard News Service Once again, a wartime president discovers he has been painted into a corner of his own Oval Office. And once again, a president summons his top war-zone general to a one-on-one meeting aboard a presidential plane parked on...
  • News Source: The Guardian | about 1 month ago
    Obama rules out Afghanistan troop cuts Obama says he has yet to decide on general's request for more troops in Afghanistan, in meeting with congressional leaders John McCain, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner after the meeting with Barack Obama. The...
  • News Source: ITN | about 1 month ago
    There was a slight increase in the number of people against Britain's involvement in the wartorn country compared to an identical survey conducted in 2006. Of 1,010 people polled, 56 per cent were opposed, 37 per cent in favour, 6 per cent unsure and...
  • News Source: BBC South Asia | about 1 month ago
    Most people in the UK continue to oppose Britain's military operations in Afghanistan, a BBC survey suggests. Despite government efforts to make the case for its military strategy, there has been little change in support since an identical poll in...
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  • Blog Source: www.daylife.com
    Page last updated at 01:00 GMT, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 02:00 UK Gen Dannatt says his advice was not taken by the government Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused a major Afghanistan troop reinforcement against the military's advice, ...
  • Blog Source: muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com
    The push comes amid reports the British government turned down a request for more troops for Afghanistan this year. General Richard Dannatt, who retired as head of the British army last month, said he was "disappointed" with ministers. ...
  • Blog Source: downingstreetsays.com
    The key point was that there were seven thousand eight hundred troops in Afghanistan in the summer of 2007, now there were over nine thousand. Reserved funding for Afghanistan had also increased from seven hundred million pounds in ...
  • Blog Source: fromtheleft.wordpress.com
    The White House said Monday that President Obama is not considering a strategy for Afghanistan that would include the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the deteriorating war there. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs struck a hawkish chord, ...
  • Blog Source: al-darb.blogspot.com
    Dannatt, who retired last month, said military experts have been recommending a boost since the beginning of 2009. London's refusal meant that British forces had to fight on with "at least part of one arm" tied behind their backs. "If the military
  • Blog Source: luishipolito.wordpress.com
    In March, Obama announced a plan to send more than 20000 additional troops to the country to provide security for a national election. That move followed what Obama and others called years of inadequate resources in Afghanistan because ...
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