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ADN Kronos International (Italy) January 20, 2010 Afghanistan: NATO to train more local security forces Brussels: NATO will train 171,000 Afghan soldiers by October 2011 to ease the planned transfer of responsibility for security to Afghan forces, spokesman James Appathurai said on Wednesday. This compares with a previous target of 134,000, he said. NATO has also decided to increase the number of Afghan policemen trained by October this year to 109,000 from 80,000 and to 134,000 by October, 2011, Appathurai said. The decision to step up the number of Afghan security personnel trained by October next year was taken at a meeting in the Afghan capital, Kabul, attended by Afghan and international representatives, he said. United States president Barack Obama in December ordered an additional 30,000 US troops into Afghanistan in the first half of this year. But he has warned that the US will begin to withdraw its military forces stationed in the war-torn country by 2011. .... NATO has also announced it will send an extra 7,000 troops to Afghanistan in the coming months. A conference in London on 28 January will focus on the 'transitional' period in Afghanistan over the next 18 months.... =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [email protected] For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
