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Brown in Afghanistan after blasts kill four soldiers (1st Lead)
Dec 13, 2008, 11:09 GMT
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks with journalists during a joint press conference with Afghanistan\'s President Hamid Karzai (not in picture) in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 13 December 2008. EPA/S. SABAWOON
Kabul - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived on a surprise visit to Afghanistan Saturday, a day after four British soldiers were killed in suicide and roadside attacks.
A presidential palace source said Brown was scheduled to meet with President Hamid Karzai, and the two would hold a joint press conference later in the day.
Brown's visit came a day after four British soldiers were killed in two separate blasts in Sangin district of southern Helmand province on Friday.
A Royal Marine was killed when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. An hour later, three soldiers on foot patrol were killed after a 13-year-old boy approached them with a wheelbarrow in which a bomb was hidden, officials said.
Taliban militants took responsibility for the attacks. In Camp Bastion, the main British military base in southern region, Brown paid tribute to the four soldiers, calling the deaths 'a tragic loss'.
Brown last visited Afghanistan in August, when he pledged to continue British support for the country.
About 8,000 British soldiers are stationed in Helmand province, as part of a 50,000-strong NATO force deployed to Afghanistan from 40 nations.
Helmand is the main hub for Taliban militants and foreign fighters associated with the movement. Helmand is also the largest opium producing province in the country.
Friday's deaths brought the total number of British troops killed in Afghanistan to 132.
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'...and this is not to stop the production of opium'
Actually, that is an understatement.
Opium production has increased since the U.S. and the U.K. got involved. It is similar to the 'war on drugs' in the U.S. where drug activity increases the more the war goes on.
A lot of U.S. rednecks actually think: 'that they are saviors and know what is right for the dirty pagan Afghan savages'. Little do they know that it is their mindset that causes huge problems in the Middle East.
Geo Bush will be missed by many . Fallen Soldiers will be missed by many . Love lost is a drag . Freedom for Aphganistan will aveange the loss . Freedom fighters stay , for as long as it takes .
i will miss G.W.Bush like i would miss the crabbs.
the only person that will miss bush is sp4
The United States is a culture of feeble-minded majority:
www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/12/14/official_histo ry_excoriates_us_rebuilding_process_in_iraq/
That majority will do anything, especially falsify history and their own intentions, to make it appear that they are potent.
They have been lead, for the past 8 years at least, by one of the greatest feeble-minded leaders in the history of mankind and that leader has been led by jesus himself.
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BritDec 13th, 2008 - 17:41:04
132 British soldiers have died, many more have been injured and this is not to stop the production of opium, it's not to prevent terrorism in the UK it's to boost the ego of politicians like Blair, Brown and Bush.
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