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UKs Secret Meeting on Afghan War
[Quqnoos] British premier has convened a secret meeting of military experts, ministers this week to review strategy on Afghanistan, according to reportsThe meeting on Tuesday will also be attended by members of the British new National Security Council, who include Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, Liam Fox, the defence secretary, William Hague, the foreign secretary, and George Osborne, the chancellor. Last weekend the coalition government in Britain was accused of lacking a coherent strategy in Afghanistan after Fox, on a visit to the country, called for troops to be pulled out "as soon as possible" and said British soldiers were not there "for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th century country". One of those attending Tuesday's meeting, Conservative MP Adam Holloway, a former soldier who served in Iraq, Bosnia and Afghanistan, suggested publicly last year that he believed the mission in Afghanistan was teetering on the brink of failure. US President Barack Obama has also formed a war council on Afghanistan to oversee the mission's progress. UK is the largest troop contributing nation after the US in Afghanistan, with having almost 10,000 soldiers deployed in southern Afghanistan. Posted by: Fred 2010-05-31 |
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