I belive canada is pulling all it's combat troops out of afghanistan in 2011 we have been there since the start in 01
Although not participating at all in the opening days of the invasion, Prime Minister
Jean Chrétien's Liberal government announced on October 7 that Canada would contribute forces to the international force being formed to conduct a campaign against terrorism. General
Ray Henault, the
Chief of the Defence Staff, issued preliminary orders to several CF units, as
Operation Apollo was established. The Canadian commitment was originally planned to last to October 2003.
Forty
Joint Task Force Two (JTF2) operators were sent to Afghanistan in December 2001, two months after then Minister of Defence, Art Eggleton, announced that Canada would be sending troops to Afghanistan to aid the removal of the Taliban.
[1]
Once the regular forces were on the ground in January–February 2002 the Canadians were used supporting the war effort until
Operation Anaconda began. During the operation, a Canadian
sniper team broke, and re-broke, the
kill record for a long distance sniper kill set in the
Vietnam War by a U.S. Marine, Staff Sergeant
Carlos Hathcock.
[1][2] Operation Anaconda was also the first time since the
Korean War that Canadian soldiers relieved American soldiers in a combat situation.
Canadians launched
Operation Medusa in September in an attempt to clear the areas of Taliban fighters from Panjwaii once and for all. The fighting of Operation Medusa led the way to the second, and most fierce Battle of Panjwaii in which daily gun-battles, ambushes, and mortar and rocket attacks were targeting the Canadian troops. The Taliban had massed with an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 fighters. The Taliban were reluctant to give up the area, and after being surrounded by the Canadian Forces, they dug in and fought a more conventional style battle. After weeks of fighting, the Taliban had been cleared from the Panjwaii area and Canadian reconstruction efforts in the area began
On 29 January 2008, Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper announced that Canada would extend its military mission in Afghanistan to 2011 only if another
NATO country puts at least 1,000 soldiers in the dangerous southern province of
Kandahar, echoing the recommendation made in the week before by the panel that he had appointed
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while unemployment sits over 11%.
