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The first Canadian soldiers were sent to Afghanistan in October of 2001, and this was done in secret. The next group of Canadian soldiers were sent to Afghanistan in January and February of 2002.

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2001, after theSeptember 11th attacks on the W.T.C. just like the us. initial deployment: 100 troops. by end of 2003: 1300. 15 Sept 06: 1900 Canadian troops. today (2009): 2830 Canadian troops

All these numbers are reported. We can estimate there are about 500 more troops for each of these numbers.

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As a part of Nato and a call from the United Nations. They became involved also for humanitarian reasons.

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