Taliban Commanders Killed Or Captured By British Troops -- The Guardian
Across Afghanistan 19 Taliban leaders and 252 lower-level fighters killed or captured in one week.
Four "key" insurgent commanders have been killed or captured recently in British-controlled areas of southern Afghanistan, the chief spokesman for the armed forces said today.
Major General John Lorimer said this was in the Nad-e-Ali and Nahr-e-Saraj districts of Helmand province, where most of the 10,000 British troops are deployed.
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My Comment: These numbers are staggering, and what is remarkable is that these stats come solely from the British command .... and not from what the other forces/commands are doing (the U.S. included).
When air strikes are reaching levels that approach 1,000 a month .... you know that the war has escalated appreciably, and that high casualties will be the result. Are the Taliban being "hammered"? .... probably .... but they were also "hammered" when they were fighting the Soivets in the 1980s, and they still won the war.
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did you see the stats by CNN that polled afghanistans on if they know why there are soldiers in their country and if they know anything about 9/11? staggering lack of communication..
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/24/afghan-people-why-is-u-s-here/
I posted the story earlier this week. Staggering lack of communication is an understatement.
On a side note, Canadian soldiers found out the same thing about 5-6 years ago. What they did was they showed pictures and videos of 9/11. It completely changed the mindset of the Afghans, and soon after Canadian soldiers started to receive tips and intel on Taliban movements in a region that many regard as the most dangerous in Afghanistan.
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