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NATO must do more in southern Afghanistan: Canada Thu Jul 31, 5:18 AM ET OTTAWA (Reuters) - NATO members must send more troops to southern Afghanistan, where Canada and a few other nations are bearing the brunt of combat against Taliban militants, Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay said on Wednesday. <http://us.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=FmEWpkwNc1ja3utk9Cx6MxNq2G1FyUiSbEQADs9j&T=168ut 0l93%2fX%3d1217555524%2fE%3d7666535%2fR%3dnews%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d2.1%2fW%3dH%2fY %3dYAHOO%2fF%3d2258726543%2fH%3dY2FjaGVoaW50PSJuZXdzIiBjb250ZW50PSJDYW5hZGE7 IiByZWZ1cmw9IiIgdG9waWNzPSIi%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d16730D4C&U=13fot6ohu%2fN %3d4nWvHkwNBmA-%2fC%3d674272.12804989.13083881.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d5406 809%2fV%3d1> Canada, which has 2,500 soldiers in the southern city of Kandahar and plans to send around 200 more, has long complained that many NATO members refuse to send soldiers to the most dangerous parts of the country. "We're doing enough ... but NATO has to do more," MacKay told reporters in televised comments from Levis, Quebec. "Southern Afghanistan is the flash point in this mission. It's the most vulnerable, the most volatile part of the country ... we're not going to let up or relent on our request for other NATO countries to come to the south," he said. The majority of soldiers fighting in southern Afghanistan are U.S., British, Canadian and Dutch. Canada's mission in Kandahar is due to end in 2011. So far 88 of its soldiers have died. The extra 200 troops will maintain and operate unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles (UAVs) and helicopters that Canada has pledged to buy before February 2009. MacKay said that, in the interim, Canada was leasing between six and eight Russian-made Mil Mi-8 helicopters as well as an unspecified number of UAVs. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
