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Helicopters, engineers and armoured infantry are helping make the commander of Dutch troops in southern Afghanistan confident of success in their mission in Uruzgan, where now only an handful of special forces are taking on the Taliban. The Netherlands had chosen to lead the new mission in the volatile mountainous province, where the government is all but absent, because they wanted to “be involved early in missions,” said Colonel Henk Morsink. Full Story