British Troops In Afghanistan Take Four Key Positions From Taliban In Helmand

British forces in southern Afghanistan's province of Helmand have battled through an 18 day operation to take 4 key positions away from the Taliban. The reward of the operation was over 100 Taliban killed, the price was five lost British troops. Here's the entire story from the brief report over at The Earth Times:

British forces 'take four key Taliban positions' in Afghanistan

London - British forces have taken four key Taliban positions during an 18-day offensive in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province in which 100 Taliban fighters and five British soldiers were killed, the London Defence Ministry announced Sunday. The ministry said the action began already on December 7 and involved some 1,500 British troops plus Danish and Estonian soldiers of the NATO-led International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) plus Afghan government forces.
The aim of the offensive, which was concentrated around the town of Nad-e-Ali, was to improve security in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, a ministry spokesman said.

The British continue to shoulder a huge burden in southern Afghanistan along with the Canadians and Americans - but with the announced new surge of American troops into the south of Afghanistan coming up over the next few months, from 20,000 to 30,000 more troops, the Brits should see some relief on the way.

The one point to note here from this report is that after all of this time, with the U.S. even placing Marines into Helmand that transferred over from Iraq, we still see an operation that lasts 18 days and ends up with a hundred dead Taliban - I mean hell, how many Taliban WERE THERE in this area? This just shows how uphill this war is going to be over the next few years. Somehow, someway the Taliban keep churning out more and more jihadists and at the same time, NATO grudgingly add 500 troops here and there.