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Deutsche Welle December 9, 2009 US envoy wants more German soldiers for Afghanistan Senior US diplomat Richard Holbrooke told German newspapers on Wednesday that he would welcome an increased German troop presence in Afghanistan. However, many German politicians are not convinced. The US would like Germany to deploy more troops to Afghanistan, according to senior US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, speaking to German newspapers on Wednesday. "More German soldiers are certainly very welcome," Holbrooke, US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, told the Berliner Zeitung. One week ago, President Obama announced the US would send an additional 30,000 troops to the war-torn country. Germany has the third largest troop presence in Afghanistan - with a total 4,400 soldiers on the ground - after the US and Britain. Holbrooke said that international cooperation there since initial deployment in 2001 had been disorganized. "The issue of responsibilities was difficult. The British were to have dealt with drugs, the Germans with training and the Italians with the justice system," Holbrooke told Germany's daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. "The whole thing was uncoordinated and did not get us very far. The upshot is that in the ninth year of the war we are starting from scratch." .... The German government says it intends to wait until after the International Afghanistan Conference in London at the end of January, to make a decision regarding its future involvement in the country. .... =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: rwroz...@yahoo.com or stopnato-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: arch...@mail-archive.com EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: antinato-unsubscr...@topica.com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
