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| British Prime Minister Visits Afghan Frontline |
| 2009-12-14 |
| British Prime Minister in a surprise visit to southern Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the next months as critical. Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived on a previously unannounced visit two weeks after ordering 500 extra British troops into the war alongside a surge of 30,000 American forces as part of a new US strategy. He held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a military base in Kandahar, the birthplace of Taliban militants and one of the deadliest battlefields for foreign troops for the past eight years. "I think it's very important to say that the combined effort of allied forces with the Afghan government is the way we will defeat the insurgency, the way we will stop Al Qaeda having any space to operate in Afghanistan," he told a news conference with President Karzai. He arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after his visit to Kandahar for further talks with Afghan officials. "I think the next few months are obviously critical," Brown earlier told reporters travelling with him. Brown has been more prominent than other Western leaders in voicing mounting criticism of the government of Karzai. The Afghan leader lashed back in an interview last week in Kabul, saying comments from the British Prime Minister were "very unfortunate and very artificial. It is extremely insulting". This year 100 British soldiers have been killed in the fiercest fighting of the eight-year-old war, fuelling opposition in London to the British forces' involvement. Brown has been a strong supporter of US President Barack Obama's new counter-insurgency strategy, which involves sending tens of thousands of additional troops and speeding up the training of Afghan forces. Other NATO allies, including Britain, have pledged an extra 7,000 troops to help turning around the stalemated mission in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Lest we fergit, 1990's + PRE-, POST-911 NET > thanz in part to OSAMA, etal. + RADICAL ISLAM'S GLOBAL-SCOPED, ANTI-US WEST JIHAD, the USA MAY HAVE TO INDUCE OWG-NWO, includ SOCIALIST-GOVTIST WORLD ORDER [SWO-GWO], REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT + MAINTSREAM AMERICA WANT IT OR NOT, espec iff the Top-Mid Leadership of Radic Islam prove elusive + LONGER IN TIME THE US CHOOSES TO PROTRACTIVELY TREAT OR FIGHT A TOTE WAR = WAR OF ANNIHILATION, WHICH IS WHAT THE ISLAMIST JIHAD COVERTY TRULY IS DESPITE ANY PC RHETORIC OR DIPLOMACY TO THE CONTRARY, AS A KOREA OR VIETNAM-STYLE STYLE "POLICE ACTION" [Limited War = Limited Conventional War, Brush War]. Again, RADIC MULLAHS > 1990's - PRESENT > BETTER FOR THE ENTIRE/WHOLE WORLD TO BE DESTROYED, THAN FOR ISLAM includ ISLAMISM-JIHADISM TO NOT RULE. But I digress ..... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-14 01:00 |
| #1 WORLD NEWS > OBAMA SAYS HE WILL KNOW BY 2011 IFF HIS PLAN IS A SUCCESS. * TOPIX/WOLRD NEWS > EXPERTS: CAPTURE OR DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN WILL NOT END TERROR THREAT + OSAMA BIN LADEN: SYMBOLIC ICON IN AN IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-14 00:46 |