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Fri 11 Nov 2009Calls for minister to resign over air strike
PRESSURE IS growing on Chancellor Angela Merkel to fire a former defence minister from cabinet after claims he withheld details of a controversial Nato air strike last September in Afghanistan.
Franz Josef Jung, now labour minister, refused to resign yesterday, leaving it to Germany’s top soldier and a senior defence ministry official to stand down over leaks suggesting they knew far more than previously claimed about the events of September 4th. “I acted appropriately, based on what I knew at the time,” Mr Jung told the Bundestag.
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