Al Jazeera with the Taliban

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Originally Posted by Skybird

And I just realized that the British (3) and German (4) news sites I checked all talk of 4.500 NATO troops and 1000 allied Afghans, while American sites seem to claim NATO to leads 45.000 NATO troops into battle.

Someone messed up the decimale, it seems. anyone knowing about this for sure? 45000 sounds massively exaggerated to me. Maybe with all logistics in neighbouring countries?

I believe there are 45,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan TOTAL. Op Achilles quoted by Fish utilizes the 4,500 + 1,000 that you found.