Afghan resources 'are sufficient'

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Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch Brown has rowed back on comments made in a Daily Telegraph interview that the UK did not have enough helicopters.
Amid an on-going political row over resources, he had said "We definitely don't have enough helicopters".
But in a "clarification" issued by the Foreign Office, said there were "without doubt sufficient resources" for current operations.
The Lib Dems said he was "right the first time" and looked "dotty".
In a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Wednesday morning, Lord Malloch Brown, who is stepping down as a minister this month, said: "It is important that I clarify the comments that are reported in today's Daily Telegraph.
"On the issue of helicopters in Afghanistan, I was making the point - as the prime minister and commanders on the ground have also done - that while there are without doubt sufficient resources in place for current operations, we should always do what we can to make more available on the frontline."

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