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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-10 08:00 AM
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America asks Dutch to send military trainers to Afghanistan
America asks Dutch to send military trainers to Afghanistan
Thursday 16 September 2010

American general David Petraeus, who is in charge of his country’s troops in Afghanistan, has asked the Netherlands to contribute to training police officers and soldiers there, the NRC reports on Thursday.

ANP says according to defence minister Eimert van Middelkoop, Petraeus hopes the Netherlands will contribute ‘a substantial part’ of the 2,000 trainers needed.

The request was made last week while Van Middelkoop was in Kabul, the paper says.

The caretaker minister says a decison on whether or not to honour the request is up to the next government.

‘I think the Netherlands, as a loyal ally, should stay,’ the paper quoted him as saying. ‘If the Netherlands ignores the request altogether, it will not be understood.’



unhappycamper comment: The Dutch would be nutz to go back into the quagmire that is Afghanistan.
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