Posted on 02/24/2007 2:56:58 PM PST by evad
LONDON, England (AP) -- Britain will send an extra 1,000 soldiers to bolster its force in Afghanistan, a move that will be announced in the coming days, the Guardian newspaper reported.
Defense minister Des Browne is expected to address Parliament on Monday to provide lawmakers with details of the deployment. The increase is to come less than a week after Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that Britain will be withdrawing 1,600 of its soldiers from Iraq in the coming months.
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