Tornado Intelligence Afghanistan 15.02.10

As we've heard a key threat to the mission is roadside bombs. We look at the vital role the RAF has been playing in protecting against them.

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News & Politics

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• British
• Forces
• News
• Tornado
• Intelligence
• Afghanistan
• Roadside
• Bombs
• RAF

[Knightley79]

If they knew Taliban were occupying that building then surely they should have destroyed it and destroyed these little people into ten million pieces so not even the world champion jigsaw puzzler can put them back together again.

[saxoniPR]

@Knightley79 The Taliban are hiding between civilians in the area. Killing civilians is against NATO's ROE.

[TyphoonDelta1]

Tornado is awesome, one of the worlds most capable strike aircraft...

[UncappingBadger]

@Knightley79 They may know they are present however other considerations need to be taking into account. Position of friendly forces, civilian casualty's (none Taliban), collateral damage. They wont drop unless they can categorically say they had no choice. Destroying peoples homes for the sake of 5 or 6 fighters won't do the boys much good in the eyes of the ordinary afghan. :)

[coszz]

Go Taliban.