Key: More Kiwi troops could go to Afghanistan

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The reason the invasion of Afghanistan was initiated was because of 9/11, but the nano-thermite find shows that the attacks were an inside job – so why is New Zealand sending troops? And why is New Zealand helping what the evidence shows to be a criminal regime that murders its own citizens?

John Key John Key

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 8:43a.m.

New Zealand could send more troops to Afghanistan but would only do so as part of an overall exit strategy, Prime Minister John Key said this morning.

He said the United States had a global “shopping list” to institute a “surge type plan, on the basis that they had in Iraq, to try and get on top of the situation and then ultimately to exit out”.

For the rest of the story, go to NZHerald here.

Clare Swinney

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