This most definitely flew under the radar today with the Detainee bill vote. I think this is a biggggggg deal. The first article I read stated there would be an additional 12,000 troops sent in. Which is it? So… now any casualties will be Nato’s fault, not Bush or Rumsfelds. Troops will be under the British command. Political bailout perhaps?

PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28 — NATO agreed Thursday to take command of military operations across all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month after the United States pledged to transfer 12,000 American troops in the country to the NATO force.

Pentagon officials said the transfer of troops currently in Afghanistan’s eastern region would result in the biggest deployment of U.S. forces under foreign command since World War II.

Afghanistan is experiencing a level of violence not seen since extremist Islamic Taliban rulers were ousted in 2001.
Read full article at the Washington Postand more at Stars & Stripes