Posted AT 5:10 PM EST on 07/08/08
MacKay announces air support for Afghan mission
LONGUEUIL, Que. — Canadian troops battling Taliban militants in Afghanistan will finally get the helicopter support they've sought since 2006 in a complicated arrangement involving a commercial contractor and the U.S. Army.
The push to get battlefield helicopters for the bloodied Canadian army in Kandahar has been mired in defence bureaucracy for almost two years.
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