Read an disdainful review in to Britain"s Helmand mission on The Times"s new website:
Officer"s mess: Afghanistan was a deeply injured play | Blundering in, eyes close and fingers crossed | Cut off, outnumbered and short of pack | Analysis: hungry on the terrain | In pictures: Afghanistan"s decade of fight | Graphic: Operation Herrick 4 | Comment: donkeys in Whitehall | Opinion: institutional rejection
Four American servicemen were killed when their helicopter was shot down in Helmand yesterday during an operation to leave bleeding British soldiers from a gun conflict in Sangin.
In a apart incident, a infantryman from the Princess of Waless Royal Regiment died in an blast in Nahr-e Saraj. His family has been informed.
The deaths move to twenty-nine the series of Nato infantry killed in 9 days.
Afghan officials pronounced the helicopter was strike by a space station grenade. The US Air Force await moody was encircling low over Sangin to strengthen an air ambulance that had landed nearby Britains Forward Operating Base Jackson to rescue multiform bleeding soldiers.
Officials pronounced that the bleeding troops, a little of whom were in a vicious condition, were airlifted to a troops sanatorium but the pilots and organisation on board the await aircraft were killed. The Taleban claimed shortcoming for both attacks.
•Burnt-out wrecks are all that sojourn of dozens of vehicles carrying Nato supplies to Afghanistan after gunmen threw motor fuel bombs and non-stop glow on a lorry repository in Sangjani, about ten miles from Islamabad in Pakistan. Seven people were killed and most some-more were wounded.
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