Operation Angry Cobra 3-3
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Operation Angry Cobra
Mark Urban | 12:11 UK time, Friday, 18 December 2009
I’m home after observing at very close quarters the US marines push to re-take the town of Now Zad in Helmand Province.
It was an intense and violent experience.
You can see for yourself below how it went, but also the questions that a major initiative like this leaves unanswered.
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Operation Angry Cobra
Mark Urban | 12:11 UK time, Friday, 18 December 2009
I’m home after observing at very close quarters the US marines push to re-take the town of Now Zad in Helmand Province.
It was an intense and violent experience.
You can see for yourself below how it went, but also the questions that a major initiative like this leaves unanswered.
One thing is clear now the dust has settled. The Afghan timescale can rarely keep pace with the American one – particularly now President Barack Obama has added such a sense of urgency to his Afghan surge.
Only a small proportion of the security forces in the Now Zad area are Afghan, and attempts to get a district governor’s office up and running in the wake of the operation are going more slowly than planned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/markurban/2009/12/operation_angry_cobra.html
(BBC Property)
Duration : 0:5:46
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