Britain to send 230 more troops to Afghanistan: minister
LONDON (AFP) — Britain is to deploy an extra 230 troops in Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Des Browne told parliament on Monday.
Browne said 400 posts were no longer required while a requirement for 630 elsewhere had been identified in the violence-scarred country, where the death toll among British troops recently passed 100.
The deployments would take the total number of British troops in Afghanistan to around 8,030 by early 2009.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said earlier that Britain would send more troops to boost the strength of its forces to the "highest level".
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