UK will expand Afghanistan occupation
International Herald Tribune [France]
07/11/06
Britain will send 900 more soldiers to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, where its forces are facing intense resistance from resurgent Taliban loyalists, the defense secretary, Des Browne, said Monday. Also Monday, officials said a U.S. warplane had dropped four 500-pound, or 225-kilogram, bombs on a militants' hideout in Uruzgan Province, also in the south, killing more than 40 suspected members of the Taliban. One Afghan soldier was killed and three members of the U.S.-led coalition forces were wounded in fighting Monday in Uruzgan. Heavy clashes in neighboring Kandahar Province over the weekend left 20 militants and a Canadian soldier dead...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/news/brits.php
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
07/11/06
Britain will send 900 more soldiers to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, where its forces are facing intense resistance from resurgent Taliban loyalists, the defense secretary, Des Browne, said Monday. Also Monday, officials said a U.S. warplane had dropped four 500-pound, or 225-kilogram, bombs on a militants' hideout in Uruzgan Province, also in the south, killing more than 40 suspected members of the Taliban. One Afghan soldier was killed and three members of the U.S.-led coalition forces were wounded in fighting Monday in Uruzgan. Heavy clashes in neighboring Kandahar Province over the weekend left 20 militants and a Canadian soldier dead...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/news/brits.php
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 12. Jul, 15:22
