A Mexican Standoff Between British Soldiers And Talban Fighters

Dispatch: British Troops And Taliban Fighters In Mexican Standoff -- The Telegraph

Across a flat, open expanse of ground 600 yards to our front we could see three Taliban standing at the corner of a mudbrick compound.

The insurgents also knew precisely where we were.

But they would only grab their weapons and open fire if the patrol from 2nd Bn The Rifles and Afghan army dared to advance.

It was a stalemate. A Mexican stand off under the increasing heat of the mid-morning sun.

We were on the Forward Line of Enemy Troops, the FLET. In fact we had gone beyond the frontline and the Taliban did not like it.

The patrol was part of the grinding battle in a corner of Helmand over who controls the water for the 17,000 people living in the stretch of the Nar-e-Saraj desert.

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My Comment: After 10 years of warfare .... one comes to the calm realization that (after reading this post) nothing has really changed.