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PM defends Afghanistan strategy

Gordon Brown has insisted Britain has the resources "to do the job" in Afghanistan, amid claims troops serving there are under-equipped.

The prime minister told MPs helicopter numbers had increased 60% since 2006 and UK forces were the best equipped they had been in 40 years.

The BBC's Defence Correspondent Caroline Wyatt looks now at how the war in Afghanistan is becoming a political argument.

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