From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
    ...in the dark of predawn, nearly 200 Royal Marines waited in uncertain   
   silence for their attack on the Taleban to begin...   
      
   ...There is a certain sneaking respect among the Marines for their enemy.   
   Though they do not regard the Taleban as especially competent, the Marines   
   acknowledge their courage in the hammering they have received from British   
   forces in recent weeks.   
   "To stand up and fight when I am dropping all that ordnance on them is   
   pretty good" admitted Captain Al Cairns, a Marine forward air-controller. "I   
   have to respect that."   
      
   No single Taleban has surrendered to the British around Kajaki. Though   
   preferring to fight, then withdraw at the last moment, they are prepared to   
   die in position if surrounded.'   
      
      
   Another great Times report from Helmand:   
      
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1381532.ece   
      
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