Religions > Atheism > OT: Mission impossible? Is the British Army being asked to fight a battle too far in Afghanistan?
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29 Jan 2006 06:24:30 AM |
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OT: Mission impossible? Is the British Army being asked to fight a battle too far in Afghanistan? |
Mission impossible? Is the British Army being asked to fight a battle
too far in Afghanistan?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article341710.ece
Soldiers will have to tackle security, reconstruction and the drugs
trade. By Raymond Whitaker and Justin Huggler
Published: 29 January 2006
A wave of violence has hit the region of southern Afghanistan where
British troops will soon be deployed, with two policemen killed by a
roadside bomb and three newly built schools set on fire in the past
week.
The Secretary of State for Defence, John Reid, announced on Thursday
that 3,300 British troops will be sent to Afghanistan's Helmand
province in one of the most complex and delicate missions the British
Army has ever undertaken. In Helmand, part of the Taliban's former
heartland and one of the country's main opium poppy-growing areas, they
will be expected to establish security, take part in reconstruction and
fight the narcotics trade, which is controlled by warlords. About 90
per cent of the heroin on British streets comes from Afghanistan.
The attacks on Helmand schools show the strength of continuing support
for the Taliban, which is violently opposed to mixed education. Last
month gunmen dragged a teacher from his classroom and shot him at the
gates of his school after he ignored warnings to stop teaching boys and
girls together.
Afghanistan
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/5b17965ed58930b3
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