August 2008
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Nato's instant response to Kandahar jailbreak →
The Independent
By Jerome Starkey, in Kandahar
When the Taliban broke more than 750 prisoners out of jail this summer, in one of the most spectacular attacks in living memory, Nato’s response was instant but invisible.
Senior commanders scrambled every drone they could spare as prisoners poured out of Kandahar jail.
The closest Nato garrison had hunkered down inside their base, afraid...
War in Afghanistan: The battle of Surobi →
The Independent
By Jerome Starkey, in Kabul
Ten French soldiers were killed and 21 injured in an “extremely violent” ambush near Kabul as Afghan insurgents staged attacks across the country yesterday.
Officials said 10 paratroopers died when their patrol was ambushed in Surobi, 30 miles east of the capital. Nato said they were attacked by more than 100 militants, while further...
Ten French paratroopers die as Taleban threaten... →
The Scotsman
By Jerome Starkey in Kabul
FIGHTING close to Kabul killed ten French soldiers yesterday and injured another 21 as spectacular violence erupted across the country.
Officials said ten Foreign Legion paratroopers died in an ambush at Surobi, only 30 miles east of the capital.
Nato said they were attacked by more than 100 militants, while further east at least six suicide bombers...
Police flood Kabul as city gripped by Taleban... →
The Scotsman
By Jerome Starkey in Kabul
THOUSANDS of extra police poured on to the streets of Kabul yesterday as residents braced themselves against a Taleban “spectacular” amid reports that insurgents were set to rock the city with suicide blasts.
More than 7,000 officers, many dressed in riot gear, and hundreds of secret service agents manned roadblocks and checkpoints across...
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Sun man joins Paras' mission →
The Sun
From Jerome Starkey, in Kandahar
SUN Man Jerome Starkey joined crack troops from 3 Para on a terrifying airborne assault in southern Afghanistan last week.
The soldiers spearheaded a massive operation in Maywand district, in Kandahar, to snatch one of Afghanistan’s most wanted drug lords.
Here he relives the moments he ran off an RAF Chinook in the bleak heart of Taliban...
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SBS blitz on heroin king →
The Sun
By Jerome Starkey, in Maywand, Kandahar
A NOTORIOUS Afghan drug chieftan escaped by the skin of his teeth as Britain’s elite special forces spearheaded a huge raid on his fort.
Evil Mullah Multan — linked to the Taliban and No5 on a most-wanted list of heroin kingpins — fled down secret tunnels as Special Boat Service commandos and Paras swooped on his remote hideout.
The Sun was...
Drug baron flees as Paras swoop →
The Scotsman
By Jerome Starkey, in Maiwand, Kandahar
ONE of Afghanistan’s most wanted drug lords is on the run after escaping a massive airborne assault by British paratroopers, American Green Berets and elite Afghan commandos.
The opium baron Mullah Multan, who has close links to the Taleban, fled along underground tunnels after hundreds of Nato troops stormed into his headquarters in...
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Drug baron flees as Paras swoop →
The Scotsman
By Jerome Starkey, in Maywand
ONE of Afghanistan’s most wanted drug lords is on the run after escaping a massive airborne assault by British paratroopers, American Green Berets and elite Afghan commandos.
The opium baron Mullah Multan, who has close links to the Taleban, fled along underground tunnels after hundreds of Nato troops stormed into his headquarters in southern...
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£3m drug snatch by Our Boys →
The Sun
Jerome Starkey, in Kandahar
ELITE troops from 3 Para yesterday seized more than £3million worth of heroin — destined for Britain — in Afghanistan.
Dozens of traffickers fled without their 70kg stash as soldiers streamed out of Chinook helicopters in an area notorious for opium farmers and their Taliban sidekicks.
The drugs were in a car parked next to a hut full of medicine and...