U.S. increase military contingent in Afghanistan to 30 thousand people

With the additional 30 thousand troops, which I promise to send (in Afghanistan) in the first half of 2010, we will be able to crush the pockets of armed resistance and to ensure the security of key settlements.

These forces will increase our ability to train Afghan forces,” – says circulated by the press service of the White House and open for publication in the media draft statement of Barack Obama, with whom he will speak Tuesday night at the military academy West Point. notes that without sending additional troops to the whole operation of international forces against the Taliban was doomed to defeat.

However, the all autumn White House and Pentagon have all flatly refused to answer questions about the number of additional forces, planned for shipment, limited to phrases that the president and defense minister think about whether the surge.