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Role Of British Troops In Afghanistan

EDM number 365 in 2009-10, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 03/12/2009.

That this House is appalled by the provocative statement by Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Lamb, special advisor to Stanley McChrystal, United States General in charge of US policy in Afghanistan, who said in an interview in the London Evening Standard on 2 December 2009 that the increased allied troops being deployed to Afghanistan will strike the Taliban `until their eyeballs bleed'; recalls that the word Taliban means student in Pashto; and believes that if the current occupation of regions of Afghanistan is to have any chance of success the foreign forces and advisers there will have to win the hearts and minds of the local people, and that making such threats against the sons of tribespeople and farmers is not calculated to achieve that stated aim.

This motion has been signed by a total of 2 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jeremy Corbyn03/12/2009Islington NorthLabourProposed
Dai Davies03/12/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSeconded

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