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From: LindyBill5/3/2009 11:08:32 PM
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British Failures in Afghanistan
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By Townie 76

From the Sunday Telegraph comes a very sober assessment of the failures of the United Kingdom in Afghanistan.

>>> Almost wholly unreported until yesterday's Daily Telegraph, there has been a dramatic change in Taliban tactics in Helmand, where some 8,500 British troops are stationed, with their headquarters in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital. On four occasions since April 21, including three in the past week, US air power has had to be called in to take out heavy machine guns, ZPU-1s and ZPU-2s, that the Taliban were installing around the town. Their purpose, as the British in Lashkar Gah are painfully aware, was all too obvious – to bring down the Chinook helicopters on which the British rely for transport and re-supply.<<<

Given the British History in Afghanistan, they had their arses kicked twice in the 19th Century maybe this is not a surprise at all. op-for.com
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