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UK Army head: "We must succeed"

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The head of the British Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, says that although the UK mission in Afghanistan is "difficult and dangerous, we must succeed and we will succeed".

Speaking from the new Army recovery centre in Edinburgh, he told the BBC that troops were trying to persuade the people of Afghanistan of the importance of voting for an elected government and defeating the Taliban.

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