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Security Assistant force operation
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Operation Mar Lewewas a three-dayInternational Security Assistance Forceoperation started in the early hours of Friday 29 May 2009 when theTalibanwere attacked as theAfghan Security ForcesandBritish Armystruck at enemy positions around the village of Yatimchay, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south ofMusa Qaleh,Helmand Province,Afghanistan.[1]"Mar Lewe" isPashtofor "snake wolf".[1][2]
The British Army forces were from the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers,[1]a well trained, operationally hardened Light Role Infantry Battalion.[3]
References
[edit]- ^abc"Fusiliers and Afghan soldiers clear Taliban stronghold".Ministry of Defence. 2 June 2009.Retrieved11 October2009.
- ^Mullen, Tom (4 June 2009). "Leading the way in battle to defeat the Taliban".Evening Chronicle.p. 18.
- ^"2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers".British Army.Retrieved11 October2009.
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