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What value the Afghan war?

Updated on 09 June 2008

By Nick Paton Walsh

"They have paid the price, but have achieved...value", says Gordon Brown, as tributes are paid to three UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

The soldiers were on patrol in Helmand province in the Upper Sangin Valley when an insurgent set off a suicide bomb.

Their deaths mark another grim milestone: 100 members of the British armed forces have now lost their lives in the conflict.

But seven years after the Taliban were overthrown; exactly what progress has been made in this still lawless and dangerous land?

Des Browne interview

Krishnan Guru-Murthy spoke to the Defence Secretary Des Browne about Afghanistan and he began by paying tribute to those who had died.

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