UK ready to send more troops to Afghanistan…

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is ready to send more troops to Afghanistan to support an expected increase in U.S. troop numbers to weaken the Taliban insurgency, the head of the British army told the Times newspaper.

General Sir Richard Dannatt said members of 12 Mechanised Brigade, who were trained for deployment to Iraq but were later stood down, have been “earmarked for Afghanistan”.

He said there were no plans to send the whole brigade of around 4,000 but the number of British troops serving in the country could rise to “somewhere in between” the current level of 8,300 and 12,000.
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