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Alex213
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Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years"
#5956405 - 08/12/06 12:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Afghan fighting 'worst in 50 years' British troops in Afghanistan are engaged in some of the most intense and prolonged fighting seen by the Army for half a century, a senior commander said.
Lt Gen David Richards, the British commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, said some UK troops would now be withdrawn from parts of the lawless Helmand province to be replaced by soldiers from the Afghan Army.
"This sort of thing hasn't really happened so consistently, I don't think, since the Korean War or the Second World War," he told the BBC World Service.
"It happened for periods in the Falklands, obviously, and it happened for short periods in the Gulf on both occasions. But this is persistent, low-level, dirty fighting."
His comments came as a senior British source said that between 40-50,000 Nato forces would be needed to control Taliban fighters in Helmand.
The number far exceeds the 4,500 UK troops currently in the region and their Nato counterparts.
http://news.excite.co.uk/international/middle-east/12339
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: Alex213]
#5956413 - 08/12/06 12:49 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Whats a "Nato"? Is this journalist so incompetent he doesn't know to capitalize acronyms, or is he just stupid?
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: Alex213]
#5956415 - 08/12/06 12:49 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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go the bulldogs!
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: Alex213]
#5956429 - 08/12/06 12:52 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think just about every country has invaded Afghanistan at one point in history
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: Basilides]
#5956437 - 08/12/06 12:54 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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cat stevens invaded katmandu once
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: Basilides]
#5956878 - 08/12/06 03:33 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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China invaded it a long time ago too.
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: downforpot]
#5956888 - 08/12/06 03:38 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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fuck me,is there any place on earth asians havent tainted?
i mean when they get sick of us they can always go back to japan for a break...where the fuck do we go?
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: quiver]
#5958092 - 08/13/06 12:17 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
quiver said: fuck me,is there any place on earth asians havent tainted?
i mean when they get sick of us they can always go back to japan for a break...where the fuck do we go?
We don't have a single place on the planet.
But hey, an all white country would be racist.
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: Alex213]
#5958094 - 08/13/06 12:18 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I am getting sick of hearing about the latest Canadian sent home in a coffin, for a problem that has nothing to do with us.
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Re: Afghanistan "worst fighting for 50 years" [Re: Hank, FTW]
#5958149 - 08/13/06 12:35 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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if there was such a haven all we'd have to do is build a nuke reactor,grow opium for asian youth and our own pockets and demand the UN to feed us while we smoke dope and laugh at their 'kindness'
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