June 2009
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Black Watch digs in after daring swoop on... →
The Scotsman
By Jerome Starkey in Lashkar Gah
HUNDREDS of Scottish troops were consolidating their positions yesterday, following a daring airborne operation to seize a vital piece of territory in Helmand from the Taleban.
Around 350 soldiers from the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, swooped into Babaji, in central Helmand province, on a wave of Chinook helicopters,...
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Afghan villagers slain as they took cover →
The Sunday Times
By Jon Swain
Additional reporting Jerome Starkey
Tears streaming down her face, the Afghan woman sat in a corner of a room with no roof and broken windows, mourning 19 of her closest and dearest relatives. “They were parts of my heart,” she said.
Six weeks after American warplanes bombed her village in Farah province, on Afghanistan’s remote western border, mistakenly...