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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... campaign. One major operation, Panther's Claw, designed to clear a populated area north of Lashkar Gah, Helmand's provincial capital, for the elections, resulted in the deaths of 10 British soldiers. Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, commander of 1st Battalion The Welsh Guards, was killed while returning from a visit to his soldiers on the frontline. He was killed in an armoured vehicle not robust...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Conservative leader David Cameron, tipped to become prime minister after an election next year, promised to maintain a long term commitment to Afghanistan when he visited the country on Friday.
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Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... strategy in Helmand had to be urgently reviewed. Mr Cameron told the troops at their base in Lashkar Gah that he was "not interest in cutting and running" from Afghanistan. "I am not interested in trying to set out some sort of timetable and convince people in that way. What I am interested in doing is helping you, whether in opposition or in government, to succeed in what...
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ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... to Helmand, where he has spoken to locals at a market and addressed British troops at their Lashkar Gah base. He was also meeting military leaders and Afghan president Hamid Karzai in Kabul, as well as watching Afghan forces train. Mr Cameron has used the trip to promise to double bonuses paid to troops returning from Afghanistan." - Mail online > Yesterday's related posts: ToryDiary: David...
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
WE can now tell you that Conservative Party leader David Cameron has been meeting British soldiers at the Task Force Helmand HQ in Lashkar Gah, also visiting military chiefs and a wheat seed distribution Centre helping local farmers out of poppy production. Anorak has long championed No Poppy Day , when donors will only wear the central black button and plastic stem of old-style commemorative...
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... 4 Conservative Party leader David Cameron meets British soldiers at the Task Force Helmand HQ in Lashkar Gah where he met military chiefs and visited a wheatseed distribution Centre helping local farmers out of poppy production. Share and Enjoy:
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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... make Ministry of Defence service personnel wear uniforms not suits. After meeting troops at the Lashkar Gah base yesterday, the Tory leader said that he was "not interested in cutting and running" from Afghanistan: "I am not interested in trying to set out some sort of timetable and convince people in that way. What I am interested in doing is helping you, whether in opposition or in government,...
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Frontline bloggers - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... very different from the picture of Afghanistan you see on the news. I’m based in the town of Lashkar Gah, Helmand’s provincial capital, which sits on the Helmand River 200 miles from the southern border with Pakistan. The Helmand River valley is actually one of the most green and fertile regions in Afghanistan. But security remains very difficult, and British soldiers are laying...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... only when the foreign troops came that the situation got worse," said Ali Khan, a cobbler in Lashkar Gah in Helmand. A businessman who imports clothes from Pakistan and is able to freely move around areas with an enormous Taliban influence, he warned that no amount of troops would help in the south. "Even if it is 90,000 they won't be able to do anything; [the Taliban's] power...
