Afghanistan - a reporting query

[joe1]

This is in no way meant to belittle the tragedy of the combat, but I want to say this for our brave troops.

I do not understand why it is that we only hear of coalition fatalities?

It must be that the Taliban are suffering as we are - but it seems to never be mentioned in the media.

I remember the Falklands war and the nightly TV coverage of John Knott giving us the 'figures' of fatalities - I am sure, for both sides.

Newspaper archives are full of WW1 and 2 ' victories' over the enemy.

Yet we only hear of the weekly return of our dead service personnel.

Whether they should be there or not is a matter for debate and opinion - but surely while they are - we, and they, deserve a full picture. For the sake of public support that they need and deserve, if nothing else.

They are on our side arent they??

[Teleph0ne]

I would imagine that it is very hard to calculate the taliban casualties as they would remove as much evedence of kills as possible, we don't hear about the american casualties either though.