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NATO agrees to few new troops for Afghanistan

Paul Koring, Globe and Mail, 29 Nov 06

NATO put on a brave face of unity Wednesday but managed to scrape together only a few hundred more soldiers to send to Afghanistan.

“We came here expecting to make real progress and I think we have done that,” said NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the end of a two-day alliance summit in Latvia. But he admitted that new forces amounted to only “several infantry companies” – meaning perhaps 500 soldiers.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper claimed progress “had been made on Canadian objectives.'' But he said he didn't know if any of the additionally pledged NATO soldiers would be deployed to Kandahar.

Embattled Canadian troops there are taking disproportionate casualties and the Prime Minister said it was impossible to assess whether the summit would change that.

“It's difficult to project future casualties and future battles based on this summit,” he said.