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Britain Feels Like They're Killing too Many Taliban Fighters, Plans to Kill Less.....
Drew: Nope, not making this up. Friggen dumb schills....BRITISH troops are to scale back attacks on the Taliban after killing 7,000 insurgents in two years of conflict, defence sources said last week. British paratroopers have returned to southern Afghanistan in increased numbers this month. For the first time, members from every battalion of the regiment will be fighting together on one battlefront. The paratroopers of 16 Air Assault Brigade killed at least 1,000 Taliban during their first deployment to Helmand province in 2006. Since then another 6,000 Taliban insurgents have been killed by British troops, the sources said. The paratroopers commanders hope they can cut the deaths, which they fear are a boost for the Taliban when fighters recruited from the local population are killed, as the dead insurgents family then feels a debt of honour to take up arms against British soldiers. We aim to scale back our response to incidents to avoid getting sucked into a cycle of violence among local tribesmen, said one officer. This way we aim to continue the process of reducing the Talibans influence in Helmand. Posted by: Icerigger 2008-04-15 |
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