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AFGHANISTAN -TOTAL TROOPS DEPLOYED
- KILLED.
By
Thomas Harding and David Blair.
[Daily
Telegraph -February 7, 2008]
Number of NATO troops deployed
US
------------------------15,038
[US
troop loses- 482]
UK-------------------------7,753
British troop loses-87]
GERMANY----------------3,155
[ Only venture out after dark and
drive like HELL as fast as they can to get back to
barracks. They have an Army strength of 300,000.]
ITALY-----------------------2,358
[Italian
troop loses-11]
CANADA--------------------1,730
[The
Canadians are second to the British with
78 lives lost]
NETHERLANDS------------1,512
[Dutch
troop loses-14]
FRANCE----------------------1,219
[French troop loses-12]
TURKEY----------------------1,219
POLAND-----------------------1,141
AUSTRALIA----------------------892
[Australian troop loses-4]
SPAIN------------------------------763
[Spanish troop loses-23]
DENMARK-------------------------628
[Danish troop loses-9]
ROMANIA--------------------------537
[Romanian troop loses-5]
NORWAY--------------------------508
BULGARIA------------------------401
*BELGIUM-------------------------369
[*This country
refused to sell us urgent ammunition supplies for
our forces in the Falkland Conflict in 1982]
SWEDEN---------------------------350
CZECH REPUBLIC--------------240
HUNGARY-------------------------219
CROATIA---------------------------211
LITHUANIA------------------------196
PORTUGAL------------------------163
GREECE----------------------------143
ALBANIA---------------------------138
ESTONIA---------------------------125
MACEDONIA----------------------125
LATVIA-------------------------------96
JORDON------------------------------90
FINLAND-----------------------------86
NEW ZEALAND--------------------74
SLOVAKIA---------------------------70
SLOVENIA----------------------------66
AZERBAIJAN-------------------------22
ICELAND-------------------------------10
LUXEMBOURG-------------------------9
IRELAND----------------------------------7
AUSTRIA-----------------------------------3
SWITZERLAND------------------------------2
TOTAL DEATHS
2001-----------12
2002-----------69
2003-----------57
2004-----------58
2005----------130
2006----------191
2007----------232
2008 (FEB)---14
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FEBRUARY-2008
AFGHANISTAN
The WAR ZONE
DEATH TOLL now equals THE FALKLANDS
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THE LOST WAR
Ben Anderson spent two months with our troops in
Afghanistan.
Here he reveals the despair of 18-year-olds with 20
'kills' who fight next to local soldiers high on drugs
-knowing this is
A WAR THEY CAN NEVER WIN
by
Ben Anderson
[BBC Foreign Correspondent]
[Daily Mail-Saturday, November 3, 2007]
TO BE CONTINUED
The last few parargraphs:
I
asked a number of soldiers whether Afghanistan was a fight worth dying
for and they all -with the exception of one major - answered 'NO'
With more than 80 soldiers killed -the vast majority in the 18
months since the British moved into Helmand -and hundreds more injured,
the British Army is sustaining casualties at a rate not seen since World
War II. A real war is being fought. And it is these very soldiers who
told me this war is now an effort which is unsustainable - especially
given the decades -long commitment our leaders are now talking about.
*
Taking On The Taliban
-The Soldiers' Story, a
Panorama special report, is on
BBC 1 on Monday 5th November
,2007.
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THE PEOPLE
HAVE SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING?
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Ditch the EU
TREATY after IRISH REJECTION
SAY VOTERS
by
Daniel
Martin
Political
Reporter
[Daily
Mail-Wednesday, June 18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters
believe Britain should drop the
controversial European Treaty in the wake of
its rejection in last week's
IRISH
REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories
launch a last-ditch bid in the
HOUSE of
LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION
OF THE TREATY.
And
10,000 people
have signed a
PETITION
on the
DOWNING
STREET- WEBSITE
within the past few days
JUNE16-2008
, calling on the
GOVERNMENT
NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL
[WHY DON'T
YOU?]
Downing
Street website is
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/
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JUNE 18-2008
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