Dannatt: I told Brown to deploy more troops
Updated on 06 October 2009
Former British Army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt says Gordon Brown rejected military advice to deploy thousands more troops in Afghanistan. Carl Dinnen reports.
Gordon Brown refused to send thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, despite guidance from the military, according to the former head of the army.
General Sir Richard Dannatt, who stood down in August, said Britain had been left to fight the Taliban with "at least part of one arm" tied behind its backs.
Downing Street strongly denied the claim and said any suggestion that Mr Brown was unwilling to provide the necessary resources was "simply wrong".
Alex Thomson was joined by Peter Galbraith, the senior UN official who was sacked from his post after he criticised the Afghan elections.
