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September 6, 2008

Convoy through hell: 3,000 British troops deliver devastating blow to Taliban during six-day battle

Topics: War on Terror

As the Daily Mail describes the battle, one of the most daring, dangerous and spectacular operations of the war in Afghanistan, some 5,000 troops - 3,000 of them British - fought for six days through the heart of Taliban-controlled territory on a mission of utmost humanitarian importance.

By the end of the operation, 250 Taliban fighters had been killed yet only one British soldier was injured.

Such was the success of the project to restore a hydroelectric dam that the commander of British forces in Afghanistan has called it the 'end of the beginning' of the campaign against the Taliban.

The operation was completed on Monday night but due to an official veil of secrecy only now can its events be told.

The aim was to install a new turbine at the Kajaki Dam in the centre of the country which could eventually provide power to 1.5million Afghans.

But because the 200-ton turbine comes in seven parts, each weighing up to 30 tons, and there is no suitable airstrip near Kajaki, the only way to transport it was by road from Kandahar airbase 100 miles away to the south-east.

The main route is by the 611 Highway but elite troops from the Parachute Regiment's Pathfinder Platoon discovered a mountain pass - codenamed Route Harriet - to allow the convoy to bypass it near the end.

The Paras tricked the Taliban by flying hundreds of troops by helicopter into Kajaki, as if they were expecting a convoy on the 611.

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Way to go, Brits; scratch another 250 Islamothugs off the planet!

Posted by Mike in Iraq at September 6, 2008 3:47 PM

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