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British Commander: The Taliban Has Been Decapitated in Afghanistan
More good news in the war on terror. Predator drones–and Coalition forces–are decapitating the Taliban in Afghanistan:
A member of 2 Scots acquires a personal escort as he patrols the town of Lashkar Gah, in Helmand province.
Afghan insurgents ‘on brink of defeat’
By Thomas Harding in Lashkar Gah
Last Updated: 10:31PM BST 01/06/2008Missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned drones have “decapitated” the Taliban and brought the war in Afghanistan to a “tipping point”, the commander of British forces has said.
The new “precise, surgical” tactics have killed scores of insurgent leaders and made it extremely difficult for Pakistan-based Taliban leaders to prosecute the campaign, according to Brig Mark Carleton-Smith.
In the past two years an estimated 7,000 Taliban have been killed, the majority in southern and eastern Afghanistan. But it is the “very effective targeted decapitation operations” that have removed “several echelons of commanders”.
This in turn has left the insurgents on the brink of defeat, the head of Task Force Helmand said . . . .