War by Numbers ; Sunday Focus with the War in Afghanistan in Its Eighth Year, President Barack Obama Is Considering a General's Request for 40,000 More Troops As Prime Minister Gordon Brown Signals Britain Will Send Another 500. David Williamson Takes the Temperature of a Drug- Filled Country Where Violence Is Escalating While a Population Battles Hunger and Intolerance

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War by Numbers ; Sunday Focus with the War in Afghanistan in Its Eighth Year, President Barack Obama Is Considering a General's Request for 40,000 More Troops As Prime Minister Gordon Brown Signals Britain Will Send Another 500. David Williamson Takes the Temperature of a Drug- Filled Country Where Violence Is Escalating While a Population Battles Hunger and Intolerance

221 - The number of British forces personnel or MOD civilians who have died while serving in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001 9,000 - The size of the "enduring deployment" of UK troops in the country 5...

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