Merkel in Afghanistan German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Afghanistan on Monday to visit German troops there, a government spokesman said.
Germany has about 3,800 troops in Afghanistan and has a parliamentary mandate to send a total of 4,500 as part of the NATO mission.
Merkel, who faces an election in six months time, is reluctant to increase the number of combat troops it sends to Afghanistan for the mission, which is unpopular among Germans.
She has also resisted pressure from allies to send its soldiers to the more dangerous southern areas of the country, where allied forces are battling a Taliban insurgency. Most of the German soldiers are in northern areas.
Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung was accompanying Merkel on her trip, but no further details were immediately available.
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at 07:13 on April 6th, 2009
And the welcome she received.
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at 07:32 on April 6th, 2009
This is a copy and paste from Reuters.
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at 09:16 on April 19th, 2009
Hey, everyone realize that Merkel was one of the first to condemn that recent 'sharia-shia-rape' law to Karzai?
Please help Baktash along, as he is one of the first Afghanis from Afghanistan to post here.
He has a nice blog, and also writes his own stuff. I did invite him to post on NP after I read through his posts. And I did highlight one of his posts a couple weeks ago. Maybe, Baktash will visit and explain that controversial photo.