{"id":4854,"date":"2008-11-13T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2008-11-13T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T17:30:48","slug":"most-britons-want-troops-out-of-afghanistan-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/most-britons-want-troops-out-of-afghanistan-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Britons want troops out of Afghanistan: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP | More than two-thirds of Britons believe British troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan next year, according to an opinion poll released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-eight percent said Britain should withdraw while 24 percent said British soldiers should stay in the violence-wrecked country.<\/p>\n<p>Britain has over 8,000 troops in Afghanistan, largely battling Taliban insurgents in the south and more than 120 British servicemen have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta, visiting London on Wednesday, called for the international coalition to deploy more combat troops to the south, where the fighting is most intense.<\/p>\n<p>His British counterpart David Miliband, backed his call, saying Britain was looking for increased &#8220;burden sharing&#8221; from its NATO allies.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that Britain would consider sending more troops to Afghanistan if US president-elect Barack Obama commits more US soldiers in an Iraq-style &#8216;surge&#8217; operation to crush the insurgents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP | More than two-thirds of Britons believe British troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan next year, according to an opinion poll released on Wednesday. Sixty-eight percent said Britain should withdraw while 24 percent said British soldiers should stay in the violence-wrecked country. Britain has over 8,000 troops in Afghanistan, largely battling Taliban insurgents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1615,16],"tags":[71,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-4854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uk-news","7":"category-war-terrorism","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}