Australia to send extra troops to Afghanistan

2009/04/28 22:24:07 @Reuters: International News

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will send an extra 330 soldiers to Afghanistan, responding to an appeal from close ally the United States for more troops to combat Taliban militants, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=CGuMJJHMc4c:P7cG0hWzB3o:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=CGuMJJHMc4c:P7cG0hWzB3o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=CGuMJJHMc4c:P7cG0hWzB3o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=CGuMJJHMc4c:P7cG0hWzB3o:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=CGuMJJHMc4c:P7cG0hWzB3o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/CGuMJJHMc4c" height="1" width="1"/
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