Post by karl on Dec 13, 2008 15:44:30 GMT -7
PM Gordon Brown is rightly correct with this condemnation of the Tali-ban use of children to use to their death, for their cause. But, then what is their cause? For to what end is for their cause? Other then a way to a means of something other then nothing that they are of as individual.
For this is war, and not so different then that of Kosovo/Democratic Republic of Congo/Iraq, it is all of same, for it is war.
As in Kosovo, for how do you train a solder of 19 years in age that a lovely young Lady or for that matter, a lovely child of 8 years or as in this case, of 13 years. Will kill you as dead as a 30 years of age.
For as in Kosovo, the lovely sweet Serbian child of years 8, walking un-challenged to a gun emplacement with a live grenade with safety pin pulled, to then simply toss the weapon and to die as with the gun crew in one simply Sharp blast of shrapnel.
For how is a solder to be trained in understanding this tactic? The Tali-ban knows, for they will use the weakness of the enemy, and the enemy is the Western world.
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Afghanistan
PM Brown condemns attacks on British troops
13.December 2008, 15:37
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the Taliban on Saturday for using a child suicide bomber in an attack which killed three British troops. Military and government sources said Britain has reinforced its 8,100 forces in Afghanistan with about 300 troops to press a campaign against the Taliban in the area around Lashkar Gah, Helmand province.
"It is a terrible commentary on the Taliban that they should use a 13-year-old child as a suicide bomber to kill some of our British troops,“ an emotional Brown told scores of British soldiers gathered around him at their Camp Bastion base.
Brown thanked the soldiers for their courage, saying there was a chain of terror that ran from the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border "and could end up in the cities and towns of Britain“.
Brown was then flown by helicopter to visit an observation tower near the town of Musa Qala which overlooks Taliban territory. He then spoke to British soldiers there from a Gurkha regiment and local officials, including a chief of police who was a Taliban member until year ago.
British soldiers said it was the closest a British prime minister had got to the frontline in Afghanistan. Brown then flew to the Afghan capital, Kabul, for talks with President Hamid Karzai.
EXTRA TROOPS
British government and military sources said 300 extra troops had been drafted into Helmand from Cyprus.
The have formed a new battle group with Danish and Estonian forces of nearly 500 to fight the Taliban around Lashkar Gah, a military source said.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to make Afghanistan a top priority. The United States is sending 3,000 extra troops to the country and is considering whether to send up to 20,000 more in the next 12 to 18 months.
The British military source said between 6,000 and 10,000 U.S. troops would be sent to Helmand. "They are going to be the difference now in Helmand,“ he said.
Britain has said it will consider any request from Obama for more troops although it stresses there must be a fair sharing of the burden among NATO allies.
British generals complain that British forces are stretched by fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and have been reluctant to take on new commitments. A defence source said this week that Britain could start withdrawing most of its remaining 4,000 troops from Iraq from March next year.
The defence officials say British troops will not be redeployed in large numbers to Afghanistan because troops need a break between deployments.
Karl
For this is war, and not so different then that of Kosovo/Democratic Republic of Congo/Iraq, it is all of same, for it is war.
As in Kosovo, for how do you train a solder of 19 years in age that a lovely young Lady or for that matter, a lovely child of 8 years or as in this case, of 13 years. Will kill you as dead as a 30 years of age.
For as in Kosovo, the lovely sweet Serbian child of years 8, walking un-challenged to a gun emplacement with a live grenade with safety pin pulled, to then simply toss the weapon and to die as with the gun crew in one simply Sharp blast of shrapnel.
For how is a solder to be trained in understanding this tactic? The Tali-ban knows, for they will use the weakness of the enemy, and the enemy is the Western world.
URL: www.welt.de/english-news/article2873069/PM-Brown-condemns-attacks-on-British-troops.html
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Afghanistan
PM Brown condemns attacks on British troops
13.December 2008, 15:37
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the Taliban on Saturday for using a child suicide bomber in an attack which killed three British troops. Military and government sources said Britain has reinforced its 8,100 forces in Afghanistan with about 300 troops to press a campaign against the Taliban in the area around Lashkar Gah, Helmand province.
"It is a terrible commentary on the Taliban that they should use a 13-year-old child as a suicide bomber to kill some of our British troops,“ an emotional Brown told scores of British soldiers gathered around him at their Camp Bastion base.
Brown thanked the soldiers for their courage, saying there was a chain of terror that ran from the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border "and could end up in the cities and towns of Britain“.
Brown was then flown by helicopter to visit an observation tower near the town of Musa Qala which overlooks Taliban territory. He then spoke to British soldiers there from a Gurkha regiment and local officials, including a chief of police who was a Taliban member until year ago.
British soldiers said it was the closest a British prime minister had got to the frontline in Afghanistan. Brown then flew to the Afghan capital, Kabul, for talks with President Hamid Karzai.
EXTRA TROOPS
British government and military sources said 300 extra troops had been drafted into Helmand from Cyprus.
The have formed a new battle group with Danish and Estonian forces of nearly 500 to fight the Taliban around Lashkar Gah, a military source said.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to make Afghanistan a top priority. The United States is sending 3,000 extra troops to the country and is considering whether to send up to 20,000 more in the next 12 to 18 months.
The British military source said between 6,000 and 10,000 U.S. troops would be sent to Helmand. "They are going to be the difference now in Helmand,“ he said.
Britain has said it will consider any request from Obama for more troops although it stresses there must be a fair sharing of the burden among NATO allies.
British generals complain that British forces are stretched by fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and have been reluctant to take on new commitments. A defence source said this week that Britain could start withdrawing most of its remaining 4,000 troops from Iraq from March next year.
The defence officials say British troops will not be redeployed in large numbers to Afghanistan because troops need a break between deployments.
Karl
