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09 Dec 2009 22:57:37 GMT
Close to home
The conflict in Afghanistan has taken its toll on towns across the UK but it has hit Plymouth harder than most. The Devon port, with its long military history, has witnessed the deaths of seven servicemen since the conflict started. "It has ...

09 Dec 2009 22:57:37 GMT
In numbers
10,000 237 pounds 5.7bn 87 Captions: UK troops will be deployed in Afghanistan under latest plans, including special forces British personnel have died in the conflict since 2002 - second only to the US with 932

09 Dec 2009 22:57:36 GMT
Tributes to lance corporal, the 100th casualty of 2009: Family and comrades mourn 'brave soldier' Minister on Helmand visit tells of mission progress
The 100th member of the British forces to die in Afghanistan this year was named last night as Lance Corporal Adam Paul Drane. Colleagues and loved ones paid tribute to Drane, 23, who was killed while on security duties at a checkpoint in ...

09 Dec 2009 22:57:36 GMT
Sergeant Chris Reed, 25 6th Battalion The Rifles (C Company, 1st Battalion) From Plymouth Killed by improvised explosive device (IED), Garmsir A TA soldier, who in civilian life built super-yachts. He had served a tour in Iraq in 2005 and was due to marry his fiancee, Heather, on his return from Afghanistan Marine Travis Mackin, 22 45 Commando Royal Marines Plymouth IED, Kajaki From a military family, he was trained in signals and had done a previous tour. Was mentoring officers from Afghan security forces at the time of his death. His brother, Corbin, is also serving in Afghanistan Captain Tom Sawyer, 26 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery Hertfordshire IED, Gereshk Educated at Watford grammar school and Sandhurst. Served a previous tour, winning a commendation. Led a regimental ski team in army competitions. Married his wife, Katie, in 2008 Corporal Danny Winter, 28 45 Commando Royal Marines Stockport, Greater Manchester IED, Gereshk, during same operation as Capt Sawyer Specialist

09 Dec 2009 22:57:36 GMT
United States: Congress is assured of united front on strategy
The US army commander in Afghanistan and his diplomatic counterpart presented a united front to Congress yesterday after a highly-publicised rift over the value of sending 30,000 extra troops to combat the Taliban.

09 Dec 2009 22:57:36 GMT
World briefing West finds there's no room for false moves in Pakistan
Immensely problematic though Afghanistan has become, Pakistan is emerging as a far bigger, potentially more dangerous challenge to western security interests, officials and analysts in Kabul say. The west's central dilemma is how to obtain ...

09 Dec 2009 22:57:35 GMT
Blair's weapons dossier foreword 'overtly political', says former intelligence head: Iraq inquiry: Scarlett distances himself from the PM's claim Munitions facts 'lost in translation', Chilcot is told
The government's spy chief at the time of the invasion of Iraq distanced himself yesterday from Tony Blair's claim that intelligence had established "beyond doubt" that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

09 Dec 2009 22:57:35 GMT
And now for the news . . .: From Iraq to New Labour to the state of the railways, people turned to plays to find out what was really going on. By Michael Billington
The defining moment came in May 2000. That was when Peter Boyden, an arts management consultant, published a report making an iron-clad case for increased funding. The Arts Council England picked up the baton, pounds 25m was made available ...

09 Dec 2009 22:57:34 GMT
Diary: Diary Hugh Muir: Tony Blair is up to something. But then, Mr Big Shot is always up to something
It is fitting to note that as everyone who is anyone in green politics talks shop in Copenhagen, Tony Blair is toying with yet another new project. How could he content himself merely by bringing peace to the Middle East and selling his ...

09 Dec 2009 22:57:34 GMT
Comment: The AfPak apparition: The Baloch people are paying a very real price for a videogame war on a phantasmagorical land
Someone in the American government has been reading Borges. This would explain the creation of a fantastical place called AfPak which occupies the same place on the map as the nations of Afghanistan and Pakistan. AfPak has much in common ...

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