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Germany Balks at US Request for Troop Help

Call for reinforcements in southern Afghanistan outside 'point of focus'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 1, 2008 5:47 PM CST

(Newser) – Germany has rejected a request from US defense secretary Robert Gates for more troops to fight the Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan, Der Spiegel reports. German defense minister Franz Josef Jung prefers his troops remain in the country's north, in accordance with Germany's Afghanistan mandate—...   Read full story »

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