07/10/2006
To mark the fifth anniversary of the opening of the military campaign to rid Afghanistan of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Tony Blair has given a tribute to our 5,000 troops in Afghanistan and promised to give "whatever front-line commanders tell us they need to complete their job".
There can be no doubt about the nature of this commitment, it being set out in an authored piece by Blair in
The Sun, repeated in a Reuters report and also conveyed in
The Times, the
Guardian and even the
BBC website. The promise is specific and unequivocal.
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