Some info and stats
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/ft-vehicle-casualties.htm
As of November 17, 2007, there have been 666 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of ongoing coalition operations (Operation Enduring Freedom and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)): 398 American, 84 British, 73 Canadian, 28 German, 23 Spanish, 12 French, 12 Dutch, 11 Italian, 9 Danish, 5 Romanian, 4 Australian, 3 Norwegian, 2 Estonian, 2 Swedish, 1 Czech, 1 Finnish, 1
Polish, 1 Portuguese, 1 South Korean.
“Canadians are getting killed at a rate five times the average for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, where _ Canada’s soldiers have suffered more than one-quarter of the combat deaths in Afghanistan this year...”Germany, with a contingent 400 soldiers larger than the 2,300 Canadians, hasn’t been involved in any fighting and has suffered no combat casualties.”
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*** it is not neccessarily the number of troops involved that counts...but the amount of sufferring—percentage of casualties according to the size of contingent—due to heavy fighting.
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