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| Britain Feels Like They're Killing too Many Taliban Fighters, Plans to Kill Less..... |
| 2008-04-15 |
| Drew: Nope, not making this up. Friggen dumb schills.... BRITISH troops are to scale back attacks on the Taliban after killing 7,000 insurgents in two years of conflict, defence sources said last week. British paratroopers have returned to southern Afghanistan in increased numbers this month. For the first time, members from every battalion of the regiment will be fighting together on one battlefront. The paratroopers of 16 Air Assault Brigade killed at least 1,000 Taliban during their first deployment to Helmand province in 2006. Since then another 6,000 Taliban insurgents have been killed by British troops, the sources said. The paratroopers’ commanders hope they can cut the deaths, which they fear are a boost for the Taliban when fighters recruited from the local population are killed, as the dead insurgent’s family then feels a debt of honour to take up arms against British soldiers. “We aim to scale back our response to incidents to avoid getting sucked into a cycle of violence among local tribesmen,” said one officer. “This way we aim to continue the process of reducing the Taliban’s influence in Helmand.” |
| Posted by:Icerigger |
| #9 RUMORMILLNEWS > MUSHARAFF SEEKS RUSSIAN, CHINESE, ABD IRANIAN COLLABORATION IN DEFENSE, GAS, AFGHANISTAN. IMO, 'Tis okay wid OSAMA BIN LADEN becuz his + Radical Islam's Jihad is headin' solely for RUSSIA-CHINA + SCO anyway. NO MATTER WHAT TERROR VIOLENCE HAPPENS IN ISRAEL ANDOR EUROPE, OSAMA'S TRUE TARGET = FOCII IS NOW SQUARELY RUSSIA + ASIA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-15 23:56 |
| #8 TOPIX > TELEGRAPH.UK > TURKEY: NATO MAKING A BIG MISTAKE IN AFGANISTAN. Winning "Hearts and Minds" more important than militarist force, plus FYI letting Turkey into the EU; + THE WAR WILL BE WON IN KABUL; + AVOIDING NATO: THE MILITANT'S NEW STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN. "Soft Targets" preferred??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-15 23:51 |
| #7 Sinse, you must have read some history books recently! ;-) |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-04-15 23:48 |
| #6 I would think that the ones you dopn't kill will come back later and may get you |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-04-15 19:59 |
| #5 Ah the Basra doctrine, I say we ask them to leave the battle field then, The UK's Labor government doesn't know how to fight or win. Send them to Kosovo so we can pull our troops out. Let them not fight there. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-04-15 19:48 |
| #4 You couldn't make this ship up. The paratroopersÂ’ commanders should form an EMO band called Suicidal Tendencies. Hm, taken... maybe ParaSuicidal Tendencies, then. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-04-15 19:47 |
| #3 Looks like they are moving the Commanders in Basra to Afghanistan. Similar logic. |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-04-15 19:32 |
| #2 "...the dead insurgentÂ’s family then feels a debt of honour to take up arms against British soldiers." I'd be shooting another local for each Taliban - that'd kill two birds with one stone by the same logic. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2008-04-15 18:56 |
| #1 The paratroopersÂ’ commanders hope they can cut the deaths, which they fear are a boost for the Taliban That wouldn't make sense to anyone but a Brit. It sure doesn't sound like a very good recruiting slogan to me. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-04-15 18:53 |