
British military deployed to fight Taliban in Helmand
Our guests discuss the implications of further conflict with the Taliban in Helmand province.
British military personnel have been deployed to Afghanistan's Helmand province as reports suggest the Taliban is close to overrunning Sangin town.
Former chief of the general staff Lord Dannatt and former deputy foreign minister of Afghanistan Jawad Ludin, amongst others, discuss the implications of further conflict with the Taliban in Helmand province.
Judy Gaden, whose son Corporal Tom Gaden was killed by an IED in Afghanistan in 2009, and Diane Dernie, whose son Ben Parkinson was severely injured by a Taliban bomb in 2006, comment on their experience of the conflict.
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