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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is taking a stand on Afghanistan and tells the BBC, "If we do not take action in Pakistan and Afghanistan then Al-Qaeda would be plotting more trouble and more chaos in the streets of our cities." Sky News reports that even as a as a new poll revealed falling support for the war, Brown led calls for the public to voice support for the military efforts in Afghanistan.

Gordon Brown & Afghanistan Stand, Asks for Public Support (Image: WENN)

American President Barack Obama is said to have settled in a number of troops for a planned 'surge' and sources claim 30,000 more soldiers will be shipped to the region.


A McClatchy news report cites confidential sources that revealed the number and the report written by Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef claims the "plan would split the difference between two options that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, has suggested: a "high-risk" one that called for 20,000 new troops and a "medium-risk" one that would add 40,000 to 45,000 troops."

More details here, the paper quotes an official that admitted it might be tough to get some in the US Congress on board. "This is not going to be an easy sell, especially with the fight over health care and the (Democratic) party's losses" in the governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia last week, an official is cited as saying.