NATO agrees to expand Afghan role

[Clara T]

Last Updated: Thursday, 8 December 2005, 13:36 GMT

Nato agrees to expand Afghan role

Nato foreign ministers meeting in Brussels have endorsed a plan to expand the alliance's role in Afghanistan.
It will involve deploying 6,000 more troops in the south of the country, a third of them expected to be British.

Thursday's agreement is set to make Nato's Afghanistan mission its biggest ever operation outside Europe.

The south and east have been the scene of intense violence which has this year left more than 1,400 dead, making it the deadliest year since 2001.

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"We have today agreed to move Nato's support for peace and security in Afghanistan to a new level," Nato foreign ministers said in a statement.

The agreement provides for a new British-led Nato headquarters in Kabul.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4509024.stm

[MrPrax]

1. BBC used to be reliable...

"Thursday's agreement is set to make Nato's Afghanistan mission its biggest ever operation outside Europe."

Purposely misleading as NATO has no mandate outside of Europe formally so any military mission outside of Europe would be it's biggest.

[Clara T]

2. BBC has deteriorated

Always portrayed the news in the language of the conqueror but you could find some good kernels in there. Now the BBC is under full onslaught by the Conservatives.

[MrPrax]

3. Only the Tories?

Funny, Blair and Company seem to have done a fine job without their help of meddling/cajoling/threatening/slashing the BBC, or going to war or passing draconian laws limiting cherished hard-fought freedoms.

In other words, the Tories have nothing to do with it since they are NOT in power.

Imagine being arrested for public protesting within in a radius of 1km of the government--oh wait a minute...damn those Tories, huh? (Makes the American 'freedom bubble' look positively anarchist)

But I have come to realize that some folks are far more into partisan nitpicking than personal freedoms anyhow...