Ethiopia announced Thursday that it had sent forces inside neighboring Eritrea to attack rebel bases, which raised worries that the two countries might go to war again.
Ethiopia, which also sent troops into Somalia in 2006 but withdrew in 2009, said last week it had sent forces back into its neighbour for a "brief period".
Gilani wanted to tell Bush that he had sent forces into the tribal areas to clean out a major madrassa where hard-line ideology and intolerance were part of the daily curriculum.
In previous attacks, Israel has sent forces into Ramallah, the unofficial capital of the Palestinians.
Even though it has sent forces to Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq, however, Britain has never been prepared to risk a similar military campaign in southern Africa.
So the Afghan president has sent forces to fight anti-Pakistan militants in their refuges in eastern Afghanistan, an unthinkable course under Mr Karzai.
But 22 other countries that have sent forces to Afghanistan have suffered deaths among their troops, with Canada bearing the next greatest burden.
But American officials said Australia, an ally that has sent forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, had been feeling neglected, and Australian leaders appealed for Ms. Rice to do some public diplomacy to prop up the sagging American image.
Kenya has bluntly rejected the resolution, reached in Kampala by the African countries that have sent forces to Somalia, calling on Kenya to withdraw its forces and to respect Somali sovereignty.
Scholars have estimated that presidents have sent forces abroad 120 to 200 times, but Congress has only formally declared war five times: the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War and the two world wars.
We consider the chief three, Australia, Canada and Japan: none of which, as it happens, has a seat on the UN Security Council.So far, Australia is the only significant country, besides Britain, to have sent forces to the Gulf in support of a possible American attack.
