Canada extends Afghan deployment

by Dave Keating | March 14, 2008 at 12:07 am | 263 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

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Canada has extended it's troop deployment in Afghanistan to 2011. The Canadians patrol the southern Afghanistan region and casualities have seena slight increase. The legislation has a caveat that they will stay as long as NATO is still involved there.

Canada's parliament has voted to extend its 2500-strong troop
deployment in volatile southern Afghanistan to 2011, as long as
NATO allies back them up.

MPs voted 198 to 77 on Thursday to keep Canadian battalions in
Kandahar for another three years, provided NATO sends 1000
reinforcements, drones and helicopters to bolster Canada's force
now on the ground, as requested.

Otherwise, Canada will withdraw next year at the end of its
current mandate.