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  • Low-profile UN chief struggles as diplomatic peacemaker 6 Oct 2008 16:00 GMT
    ... to travel to Burma to meet with military ruler Senior General Than Shwe in December, ... Britain launched Operation Desert Fox, a four-day air assault against Iraq, several months later in 1998. ...

  • British commander expects no clear Afghan victory: report 6 Oct 2008 15:07 GMT
    ... Afghan victory: report Afghanistan needs more than military action: defence minister Military action alone will ... levels. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, which has just completed its second ... and can be managed by the Afghan army," he told the newspaper. Carleton-Smith said his ...

  • Talks with Taliban the only way forward, says UK commander 6 Oct 2008 08:32 GMT
    ... being delivered with increasing urgency by British military commanders, diplomats and intelligence officers, to Nato ... and can be managed by the Afghan army. We may well leave with there still ... of rural insurgency." Carleton-Smith, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, which has just completed a six-month ...

  • Top UK brig calls for political solution in Afghanistan 6 Oct 2008 08:27 GMT
    ... view commonly-held, if rarely aired, by British military and diplomatic officials in Afghanistan. Many believe ... Brig Carleton-Smith is the Commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade which has just completed its second ... and can be managed by the Afghan army." Brig Carleton-Smith said the goal was to ...

  • Taliban will 'never be defeated' 6 Oct 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, whose troops have suffered severe casualties ... The Times that in his opinion, a military victory over the Taliban was “neither feasible ... up the competence of the Afghan National Army. He suggested that they would be provided ...

  • Weighing the politics, economic impact of oil 'war' in Niger Delta 6 Oct 2008 08:14 GMT
    ... wo questions stick out in the ongoing confrontation between ... part of the resource control struggle. When military commanders led by Sarkin Yarkin Bello faced ... when Tombia fell. The new chief of army staff, Paul Dike, breezed through the volatile ...

  • Afghanistan war 'cannot be won' 6 Oct 2008 07:32 GMT
    ... Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, whose troops have suffered severe casualties ... The Times that in his opinion, a military victory over the Taliban was “neither feasible ... up the competence of the Afghan National Army. He suggested that they would be provided ...

  • Talks with Taliban the only way forward in Afghanistan, says UK commander 6 Oct 2008 07:29 GMT
    ... being delivered with increasing urgency by British military commanders, diplomats and intelligence officers, to Nato ... and can be managed by the Afghan army. We may well leave with there still ... of rural insurgency." Carleton-Smith, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, which has just completed a six-month ...

  • Talks with Taliban 'only way forward' 6 Oct 2008 07:27 GMT
    ... being delivered with increasing urgency by British military commanders, diplomats and intelligence officers, to Nato ... and can be managed by the Afghan army. We may well leave with there still ... of rural insurgency." Carleton-Smith, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, which has just completed a six-month ...

  • Analysis: the chances of victory in Afghanistan 6 Oct 2008 06:00 GMT
    ... years since the US-led coalition first launched military action in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban ... that Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade which is just completing its second ...

  • War on Taliban can't be won: UK commander 6 Oct 2008 05:58 GMT
    ... Oct. 5: Britain’s senior military commander in Afghanistan has admitted that the ... Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, which has just completed its second ... can be contained by the new Afghan Army. "If we reduce our expectations then I ...

  • Afghan war 'unwinnable' 6 Oct 2008 04:59 GMT
    ... the public should not expect "a decisive military victory" in Afghanistan Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith said ... leadership was "decapitated". But on Sunday the army officer said it was time to lower ... Afghan army. Brig Carleton-Smith, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade - which has just completed its ...

  • Don't miss this chance 6 Oct 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... Labour political leaders who boast of being in Afghanistan for the long haul, with military victory a certainty. The commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade knows that there will be no major set-piece battle victories signifying total control ...

  • Army chief: 'Taliban war can't be won' 6 Oct 2008 04:46 GMT
    ... British public should not expect a "decisive military victory" by coalition troops and has spoken ... the Taliban. Carleton-Smith, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, said the objective was to enlarge the Afghan army so it could take over the security ...

  • War on Taliban 'can't be won' 6 Oct 2008 04:34 GMT
    ... British public should not expect a "decisive military victory" by coalition troops and has spoken ... the Taliban. Carleton-Smith, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, said the objective was to enlarge the Afghan army so it could take over the security ...


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