Wednesday, July 7, 2010

UK to Withdraw from Afghan Area, 3 NATO Occupation Troops Killed


Al-Manar

"07/07/2010 Following heavy casualties they are paying in South Afghanistan, British occupation troops are to withdraw from an area in Helmand province, British reports said on Wednesday. NATO reported that three occupation forces were killed in bomb attacks, also in the South.

British servicemen will be pulled out of Sangin district in the north of Helmand province and be replaced with some of the 20,000 US occupation troops already stationed in the province, the Guardian newspaper and the BBC reported. UK troops will leave the district by the end of the year, according to the media reports.

Of 312 British occupation troops personnel to have died in Afghanistan since operations began there in 2001, around a third were killed in Sangin....."

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