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 b0red5tiff
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 Germany To Step Up Aid In Fighting Afghan Drug Trade 
#8962316 - 09/21/08 08:07 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung said Sunday Berlin's troops would begin doing more to help fight the drug trade in Afghanistan which he said was helping to fuel the extremist insurgency there.
Jung said Germany's Bundeswehr soldiers would bolster their support for Afghan security forces combatting the narcotics industry, which he said allowed the Taliban to finance attacks against the government and foreign troops.
"I have the impression that that was behind some of the attacks mounted against the Bundeswehr," he told Deutschlandfunk radio, referring to the lucrative poppy trade. "It is in our interest to make progress on this issue."
Until now, Germany has been reluctant to fight drug production in Afghanistan, leaving the task to the country's overstretched and undermanned security forces.
Jung noted international forces were making faster progress in training Afghan soldiers than police officers, but said the number of Afghan troops fully ready to be deployed had only reached about 35,000.
He said reports citing 60,000 battle-ready Afghan soldiers were exaggerated " because it is about making sure they are really in a position to provide the kind of security our soldiers, for example, can provide."
Jung said Afghanistan believed 122,000 soldiers and as many police officers would be needed before the country could ensure its own security. Germany is to train 7,500 security forces next year, three times as many as in 2008.
Germany plans to increase its maximum possible deployment in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led International Security Assistance Force to 4, 500 soldiers from 3,500 currently amid calls for European countries to do more to keep Afghanistan from slipping back into the hands of Islamic extremists.
The Bundestag lower house of parliament is to vote on the new mandate Oct. 7.
The mission in Afghanistan is deeply unpopular in Germany. About 5,000 people turned out for protests Saturday in Berlin and the southwestern city of Stuttgart against the extension of the mandate.
The 3,300 German soldiers currently serving in Afghanistan are deployed in the relatively calm north of the war-ravaged country but its troops are regular targets of attacks by insurgents.
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Re: Germany To Step Up Aid In Fighting Afghan Drug Trade [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8963863 - 09/21/08 01:21 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Why?!?! You won't win. EVER. If you do stop the growth over there someone else will grow it elsewhere.
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