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Published 11/05/2009 by BBC

Dead soldier's sister attacks PM

Father-of-one Pte Ellis was on patrol when he was killed Gordon Brown has been urged to pull UK troops out of Afghanistan, by the sister of a solider killed in Iraq.

The prime minister was confronted by Karla Ellis, sister of Pte Lee Ellis, who died in a roadside bomb in 2006.

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...She asked: "How many of our under-equipped soldiers have to die before the powers that be do the right thing, instead of trying to save face, and bring them home?" Mr Brown replied that...

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...continued: "The Taliban have access to weapons they can use indiscriminately against you or me on the streets of cities in Britain. 'What we are facing in Afghanistan is an insurgency, it is guerilla warfare. 'The strategy is to get the Afghans to take more responsibility for their own government.' He acknowledged that the recent election in Afghanistan had been 'less than perfect' but said the country needed a stronger army and police force."

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