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Kiwi1988 cwo 2 User is Offline Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 2721 Karma: 3 applaud / smite Location: Australia 2766 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:17 pm    Post subject: Poland offers troops for Afghanistan from Feb 2007 (Delta) · Quote 2.20pm Friday September 15, 2006 By Natalia Reiter WARSAW - Poland announced today it would send 1000 more troops to Afghanistan in the first offer since an urgent Nato appeal for reinforcements, but it said they would only be on the ground by next February. Nato's top commander last week requested up to 2500 extra troops to help combat fiercer-than-expected Taleban resistance in the south before the onset of winter in coming weeks. But nations failed to make any firm offers at talks yesterday. Polish officials agreed with Nato that most troops would go to east Afghanistan rather than southern provinces where British, Dutch and Canadian troops are battling Taleban insurgents. But Polish Deputy Defence Minister Boguslaw Winid told Reuters it was still a matter of discussions if some could be shifted south. "We have to talk through all details with Nato and the final decision will be made by the president soon," he said in an interview. While the Polish offer by no means solves Nato's troop and equipment shortfalls, Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer welcomed it and said the contingent could be a reserve force supporting operations across the whole country. "This is a very important step," he told reporters in Brussels. "If it comes, it would free up other forces. The idea is a reserve for the whole of Afghanistan. We are not linking this to the north or south or east." Today's announcement confirmed a long-held plan for Poland, which currently has 100 soldiers in Afghanistan, to add troops there as part of a Nato rotation due next February. Poland's opposition criticised the announcement and military experts said that by sending more troops to Afghanistan, the Polish government was overstretching the army. "This declaration is too ambitious," said General Stanislaw Koziej, a former defence minister. "We are reaching the limits," he told Polish television. Alliance officials say it will take total troop levels of its International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) up to 21,000. "On the timing, it would have been nice to see it earlier," said one Nato source. "It is urgent to try now to send these 2500 forces which would make a great deal of difference," the European Union's Afghanistan representative Francesc Vendrell said in Brussels. No other firm offers to contribute reinforcements had been registered by Nato today, officials said. Commanders are also seeking more attack helicopters and transport planes. Afghanistan is seeing its heaviest violence since US-led forces overthrew the Taleban in late 2001 after they refused to hand over al Qaeda's chief, Osama bin Laden, the architect of the September 11 attacks on the United States. More than 2000 people, mainly rebels but including civilians and Afghan and foreign troops, have been killed in fighting this year. "We are bringing that region into a position where stability and security will prevail and reconstruction will start in the very near future," said Nato's Supreme Allied Commander James Jones, who launched the initial call for reinforcements told an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe meeting in Vienna. - REUTERS People talk Iraq, most forget Afghanistan, this war is never ending, our troops are losing their lives and are injuried daily. We need back up and we need it now. _________________ Executive Officer[XO] M.S.T. [Reserve corps] Military Global Allied Forces http://www.militaryglobal.com/forum/index.php Evil Prevails when good men do nothing Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. Jewish Task Force http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php
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Outsider Asst. Admin User is Offline Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 4203 Karma: 27 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 32274 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 9:28 pm    Post subject: · Quote Great topic Kiwi1988 feel free to post any of this sort that spotlights any and all allied forces news. _________________ <table border="0" bordercolor="#F6FCFD" width="1" bgcolor="#F6FCFD"> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> </td> </tr>Commanding Officer M.S.T. Alpha company <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </table>
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