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Article: Britain gaining ground on Taliban despite losses, says Prime Minister
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- July 13, 2009
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Britain's offensive against the Taliban is gaining ground despite
the losses of recent days, Gordon Brown said yesterday as he tried
to rally faltering public support for the campaign in Afghanistan.
The Prime Minister described the mission as a "patriotic duty" to
keep the streets of Britain safe from the threat of terrorist
attack.
He paid tribute to the "sacrifice" of the 15 troops who have died
since the start of the month, in the bloodiest fighting the Army has
seen in the current campaign.
The Ministry of Defence named six more of the dead -- including
the five members of Ulster-based 2nd Battalion The Rifles who were
killed on Friday during a foot patrol near the town of Sangin in ...