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Published 11/07/2009 by Reuters India

Obama adviser urges caution on extra Afghan troops

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's national security adviser, James Jones, has said there is no guarantee that sending extra troops to Afghanistan would solve NATO's problems, and that they could just be 'swallowed up'. In an interview published on Saturday, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel asked Jones whether...

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...was needed. "I believe we will not solve the problem with troops alone. The minimum number is important, of course. But there is no maximum number, however. 'You can keep on putting troops in, and you could have 200,000 troops there and Afghanistan will swallow them up as it has done in the past,' he said, according to comments published by the magazine's website in English and German."

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...long,' he said. "But I know our president and other heads of government are pressing for everything to be done to ensure the Afghans assume responsibility." As of late October...

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