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...have a strong U.N. mandate, and, for us, Afghanistan is a long-term commitment," he says. Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left government struggled to keep its majority intact during parliamentary votes in July over whether to reaffirm its existing troop commitments to Afghanistan, but that pledge appears unshaken by Rome's subsequent decision to send a sizable force to Lebanon. Birgit Homburger, deputy head of Germany's Free Democratic Party, joins the European chorus that ISAF's mandate "must be extended. We cannot simply stop halfway through." Nevertheless, a recent poll showed that 56% of Germans want...
...troops to the southern province of Helmand, and that the current British deployment in Afghanistan would rise from 1,000 today to 5,700 in the years to come. Canada has agreed to send 2,200 new troops to the south as well, a decision apparently unshaken by the death of a Canadian diplomat and serious injury to three soldiers by a suicide bomber on Jan. 15. The Dutch government has tried to build in some protection against critics. It secured assurances from Nato that allies would come to their aid in the case of serious escalation. It also stipulated...
...bomb exploded fifty miles from my base. At first, we had no idea of what had caused the terrific shock and the awesome drone. We refused to accept the fact that Japan was barely hanging on, and pretending to be unshaken by the bomb, we went about our tasks with as much zeal as before...
...choice on Nov. 2 will be defined less by the policies the two candidates have set out than by whether they have proved their capacity to lead. Bush leads through a certainty in the rightness of his cause that is unshaken by the absence of WMD or by more than 1,000 combat deaths in Iraq. "He has a single-minded determination to protect the U.S. from being destroyed by terrorists," says Danforth. "And he believes that spreading freedom is an essential part of protecting America...
...down Garden St., hurdling over the string barriers in the Yard and weaving around angry drivers and pedestrians. Lim and Lurie managed to garner an early sprinting lead, being the first to arrive at Currier. But Lurie lost precious minutes searching for a water dispenser. Nevertheless, he appeared unshaken. “You need to lubricate the bread on the way down. It makes it easier,” Lurie said. Despite the pressure looming over them, the contestants, at this point, remained largely in good spirits. “That’s a good chickwich...