Putting the Hell in Helmand; Afghanistan.(Afghanistan's Helmand province)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 5, 2008 | Copyright information

In the war-torn south, the British and the Taliban are both resented

AKHTAR, a well-to-do cloth merchant in his 50s, recalls the optimism Afghans in his province of Helmand felt when the Taliban were defeated in 2001. It is exhausted. "Now we just say everyone should leave us alone." And that includes British NATO forces. Mr Akhtar speaks for many. In ten days in Helmand this correspondent found no one who would say that British forces had improved things.

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