Thursday, August 10, 2006

Afghanistan War: Still going on

From: UK general warns over Afghanistan fighting by David Fickling Guardian 08/10/06:

Fighting in southern Afghanistan is some of the worst faced by British troops since the Korean war, the head of the international security assistance force in the country said today.

Lieutenant General David Richards said "persistent low-level dirty fighting" meant troops were struggling to recover from attacks before further violence broke out.

"This sort of thing hasn't really happened so consistently, I don't think, since the Korean War or the second world war," Lt Gen Richards told the BBC World Service.

"It happened for periods in the Falklands ... and it happened for short periods in the Gulf on both occasions. But this is persistent low-level dirty fighting.

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