Heavy Weather

"It has been a hectic first week back for me but having cleaned up the inbox I can now turn the gimlet eye onto the state of play in Afghanistan. And the state of play is not too good for the home team at the moment. Let’s review just the major events for yesterday to give all of you an idea on how bad things are getting

Yesterday the three things which popped up on our radar in the east were an ANP ambush which killed four police and dozens of civilians, the loss of Bargi Matal district in Nuristan – the Taliban flag went up over the District Administrative Center (DAC) at 1412 on the 9th of July, and a one round “Tinian shot” into the American combat outpost (COP) located around the Sirkanay DAC which blew up all their fuel stores and half of their vehicles. These incidents are part of a disturbing set of storm clouds on the horizon; we are heading into heavy weather when the storm breaks we are going to start losing people and losing them fast."
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