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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 01:41 PM
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Ainsworth warns Afghans struggling to leave battle zone
Source: BBC

Improvised explosive devices are stopping Afghan civilians leaving a town where UK troops will launch a huge operation, the defence secretary says.

Bob Ainsworth spoke ahead of Operation Moshtarak to clear Taliban fighters from Marjah in Helmand province.

Thousands of coalition soldiers are involved in the offensive.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the number of UK casualties in 2010 "significantly depends on how this forthcoming campaign goes".


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8506137.stm
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 01:49 PM
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1. sickening. this is Vietnam redux. god, I hate the MIC
I hate them with a vengeance I didnt know I had in me.
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