AINSWORTH-CASUALTIES TO RISE BECAUSE WE TOLD TALIBAN WE WERE COMING!

BRITISH SOLDIERS REST IN HELMAND YESTERDAY

British troops could be killed as a direct result of the strategy to publicise the imminent major Allied offensive in Afghanistan, it was feared last night.  The decision has given insurgents time to plant thousands of extra roadside bombs at key locations, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth admitted yesterday.


His comments came as a British soldier was killed in Helmand Valley trying to defuse a roadside bomb in preparation for Operation Moshtarak.  The soldier, from 36 Engineer Regiment, died in an explosion in Nad-e-Ali district on Monday. He is the third British serviceman to die in a roadside bomb in the past four days.
MPs questioned the decision to give the Taliban advance notice of the operation, which had left troops forced to ‘clear routes’ for fleeing civilians as well as their own personnel.  Military sources believe the Taliban have laid ‘thousands’ of extra IEDs or improvised explosive devices in recent weeks.


It pains me to say it with new casualties piling up, but you heard it here first on Monday.  Ainsworth and by implication the Chief of Staff in the Army will play a big part in any British casualties we suffer and if this has not been an operational but a political decision then AINSWORTH'S HEAD MUST ROLL.  If it's someone in the Army Command then their HEAD MUST ROLL.

If British  lives are being lost needlessly, THE BRITISH PEOPLE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT.

  WE SHOULD BE TOLD!

GET READY FOR THE BODY BAGS-AINSWORTH'S WARNED THE TALIBAN!

THE AFGHAN ARMY YESTERDAY ON MANOUVERES

Bob Ainsworth: Casualties are a 'very real risk'  Offensive will be the 'biggest of its kind since Vietnam'


Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth warned the public to be braced for casualties last night as troops prepared to launch the biggest offensive in the eight-year Afghanistan war.  A strike force of 15,000 British, U.S. and Afghan troops will mount airborne raids in the most dangerous areas of central Helmand province.

Am I being particularly dense, (not like me ! ), but if you were mounting an operation on an enemy that doesn't wear uniforms, doesn't as such have a standing army and can melt into the civilian population and disappear would you spread it all over your newspapers and the Internet, days before you mount it?  Is it not like the Allies telling Hitler where the d-day landings were going to be?

Or maybe WIGGY AINSWORTH THINKS THEY DON'T HAVE COMPUTERS!