Afghanistan and Pakistan

Part of Bills Presented – in the House of Commons at 1:55 pm on 16 July 2009.

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Photo of Paul Flynn Paul Flynn Labour, Newport West 1:55, 16 July 2009

Has the Secretary of State observed over the past eight years that every surge of troops has resulted in a surge of targets for the Taliban, and a surge of deaths? Only seven British soldiers had died up to 2006, only two them in battle. Can he not see that the reason why the Taliban are killing our soldiers is that they see us as aliens, the Ferengi, in their country, and that they want to die-in many cases, it is their dearest wish-in a jihad? We have given our soldiers an impossible, suicidal task.