Cake has nearly vanished from my house – I’m surprised that it has lasted this long! However I found some secret stash that I had hidden the last time I came home to Harrow. I’m slightly worrying about what will happen when I return to Winchester, as there will be no cake there :O.
Any way, thats not what todays post is about, its about the current deployment of Arab soldiers who hail from United Arab Emitrates in Afghanistan; their current job is to try and improve matters and disputes, from local villages to overlooking aid deployments. BBC reporter Frank Gardner revealed that although there are Jordanian soldiers taking part in the peace keeping missions, the UAE soldiers are the first to be taking part in whole scale operations.
They recieve much better receptions from Afghan elders because they have more in common – they share the same culture and religion. UAE’S Major Ghanem al – Mazroui was interviewed speaking about how he tries to improve the Afghans’ opinion of foreign soldiers. Their aim, as Major al-Mazroui commented, is to ‘help the people down here, not to fight.’
As long as the soldiers aren’t torturing, or burning down villages – or encouraging the lack of education for women I can’t really think of any thing wrong with these soldiers. Although I can’t help but think – are there any more secrets that are being kept from us. the current video handed out by the BBC is that of success, but have any UAE troops died in Afghanistan? 89 British troops have died since 2002.
Any way this is all I have to say for the moment. I’m going to look for more cake.
xxx
