Royal marines attack Taliban insurgents in the Afghan city of Sangin, where the Helmand governor said British troops were failing to connect with people, WikiLeaks cables reported.
Britain's four-year military stewardship of the troubled Helmand province has been scorned by President Hamid Karzai, top Afghan officials and the US commander of Nato troops, according to secret US diplomatic cables.
The dispatches expose a devastating contempt for the British failure to impose security and connect with ordinary Afghans.
The leaked US embassy cables covering Afghanistan also reveal:
<span>Karzai and siblings corrupt - we really needed wikileaks to reveal that to us.
ReplyDeleteNot enough British squaddies willing to die for the American Empire - how disappointing. To adapt an old Irish song; "Send out for hirelings Barack Obama, search every country where breathes a slave." </span>