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Title: Firefight in Afghanistan
Post by: cpxxx on July 02, 2006, 09:01:09 AM

Interesting article on Aghanistan from the Sunday Times. A British journalist with the Paras and the Royal Irish under fire. Her last paragraph I feel is very telling.

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Far from losing any men, the brave paras from C company had killed about 20 Taliban. Yet the Ministry of Defence put out nothing. If Justin and I had not been there, you would probably never have read about it.

Sunday Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2252723_1,00.html)

Title: Firefight in Afghanistan
Post by: Gunslinger on July 02, 2006, 10:51:47 AM

You're right, we don't hear about the heroics or the good deeds involving either of these two conflicts as much as we should.  All the bad stuff (wich should be reported as well) creates a very cloudy and inaccurate picture IMHO.

Where'd you see the photos?  I was looking for them but didn't see any links.  Thanks for the post though, this was a good read.

Title: Firefight in Afghanistan
Post by: Brenjen on July 02, 2006, 11:49:47 AM

Yes, a very good read indeed. Thanks for linking it.

Title: Firefight in Afghanistan
Post by: Dago on July 02, 2006, 12:11:06 PM

Good read.

Always knew the Afghanistan fighting has been underreported since my son served there and told me of the fights, fights we never heard about here.