Monday, December 18, 2006

France to pull troops from Afghanistan

Yahoo! News reported France is to withdraw its 200-strong special forces from Afghanistan, all of its ground troops engaged in the U.S anti-terror operation there, authorities announced Sunday.

Oh horrows. How will we prevail without 200 French forces. Who will carry the white flags?
The decision to pull the elite troops, based in the southeastern city of Jalalabad, comes as the Taliban militia are gaining strength despite the strong engagement — some 32,800 troops — in NATO's International Security Assistance Force. France has balked at sending its 1,100-strong NATO contingent outside the relatively safe Afghan capital, Kabul.
They might shoot at them.

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