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Gordon Brown has confirmed he will send 500 more troops to Afghanistan, taking the total UK deployment to over 10,000. | |
He told MPs all conditions had now been met to send the extra personnel and that eight other countries had also offered additional troops. | |
The UK force level will reach 9,500 but special forces takes this to 10,000. | |
Mr Brown and Barack Obama are due to hold a video conference later, a day before the US president's likely announcement of 35,000 extra US troops. | |
Mr Brown told the Commons the three conditions needed to commit had been met, namely enough kit, sufficient help from other nations and more local training for local forces. | |
Earlier on Monday, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth said the UK's armed forces had the vehicles and equipment needed to commit an extra 500 troops to the war effort. | |
A ministerial committee is believed to have been told by the chief of the defence staff supplies are adequate. |