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Britain could send more troops to Afghanistan: FM
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LONDON (AFP) - - Britain could send more troops to Afghanistan if US president-elect Barack Obama asks for them when he takes office next year, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in an interview published Friday.
"We are waiting to see what the Obama strategy is. If there are requests for help, we'll look at them hard," Miliband told the Daily Telegraph.
But he said it was important that other NATO allies also contribute to the 51,000-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) the alliance leads, which is helping the Afghan government fight a Taliban-led insurgency.
"The British people don't want to feel it's always us who gets the nod; they want to know that others will do it," Miliband said.
The foreign secretary made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday where he held talks with President Hamid Karzai and met British troops.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has so far played down the prospect of sending more troops to Afghanistan in the near future, in addition to the 8,000 already deployed largely in the south of the country.
But a change of strategy is expected when Obama takes office on January 20, shifting the military focus from Iraq to Afghanistan, and he is expected to press the United States' NATO allies for reinforcements.
Two British troops were killed in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, taking to 128 the total number of British services personnel killed there since the US-led military action in 2001.
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