Drone_pilot
24-07-04, 02:24
The UK would be able to send 5,000 troops to Sudan to help ease the humanitarian crisis, the Army's most senior general has said.
Chief of General Staff Sir Mike Jackson told the BBC's HARDtalk programme: "I suspect we could put a brigade together very quickly indeed."
Tony Blair has said the crisis does not yet require British intervention.
Pro-government Arab militias have forced more than one million black Africans from their homes in Darfur.
Efforts are ongoing to agree a UN Security Council resolution urging the Sudanese government to curb the conflict, which the US Congress has labelled as "genocide".
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3922109.stm)
My comment "with all the defence cuts proposed, this will leave Britain defence it the hands of the 5th Lewisham cubs brigade"
Chief of General Staff Sir Mike Jackson told the BBC's HARDtalk programme: "I suspect we could put a brigade together very quickly indeed."
Tony Blair has said the crisis does not yet require British intervention.
Pro-government Arab militias have forced more than one million black Africans from their homes in Darfur.
Efforts are ongoing to agree a UN Security Council resolution urging the Sudanese government to curb the conflict, which the US Congress has labelled as "genocide".
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3922109.stm)
My comment "with all the defence cuts proposed, this will leave Britain defence it the hands of the 5th Lewisham cubs brigade"