Nato's leaders have urged member countries to provide reinforcements to help in its campaign against Taleban guerrillas in southern Afghanistan.
Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer criticised some member states for, in his view, not doing enough.

The commander of British forces in Afghanistan has meanwhile said combat there is more intense than in Iraq.

Brigadier Ed Butler said his troops were being attacked up to a dozen times a day but their morale remained high.

"The intensity and ferocity of the fighting is far greater than in Iraq on a daily basis," Brig Butler told the UK's ITV News programme.

He said British forces had been involved in "fighting that is up close and personal" that at times included hand-to-hand combat.
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