German military mulls sending Tornado fighter jets to Afghanistan
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, Aug 27, IRNA
Germany-Afghanistan-Jets
The German military is considering dispatching up to six Tornado fighter jets to Afghanistan in a bid to support the NATO-lead International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the homepage of Der Spiegel news magazine reported Saturday.
While there are no concrete imminent plans for such a transfer of fighter jets, German military leaders are pondering a blueprint to use Tornado planes based at an air base in north Germany for the Afghan military mission.
Meanwhile German Defense Minister Peter Struck is due to begin a two-day visit of German peacekeeping soldiers in Afghanistan on Sunday.
Struck wants to assess the overall security situation in Afghanistan ahead of the September 18 parliamentary elections in that country.
The minister is also to be updated about the work of the German-led Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) in Faizabad and Faizabad.
At present time, there are some 2,250 German peacekeeping soldiers stationed in Afghanistan of which 450 are deployed in Kunduz and 100 are based in Faizabad.
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