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Darfur Crisis

I am not an expert in military planning, strategy or logistics, but I ought to be able legitimately to look to those who are for advice. If the right hon. Gentleman agrees that sufficient troop numbers are, if not a sufficient condition of progress, at any rate a necessary one, can he advise at what point the judgment will be reached about the appropriate number? My anxiety—this is the alarm bell ringing in my head—is that even once a judgment is reached about the appropriate number, there is every danger that it will be phased, that it will take a long time, and that the deployment will not happen all at once. So, 1 October is the start date for the UN, not the finish, is it not?