CBC - The Passionate Eye~ Taking On The Taliban 2007 12 02 Xvid

CBC - The Passionate Eye~ Taking On The Taliban  2007.12.02 Xvid

It was hoped British forces would leave Afghanistan without firing a shot,

instead senior offices have described it as the heaviest fighting the British

Army has seen since the Korean War and more than 50 of their men have been

killed.

Six years after the Taliban regime fell, the south and east of the country is

in open conflict and Britain is at the heart of the fighting. Britain has

volunteered its troops for one of the most dangerous areas, Helmand, where the

countryside is in the hands of the Taliban and where the rural population

survive by growing poppies for opium.

When the BBC's Panorama first started filming in Afghanistan with The Queen's

Company of the Grenadier Guards, it was following 35 men whose duties included

being photographed by tourists outside Buckingham Palace. Six months later two

are dead and thirteen others are seriously injured.

Taking on the Taliban follows The Queens Company into numerous fire fights to

get the intimate and personal story of a small band of men facing the biggest

challenge of their lives, and in the process, capturing unprecedented footage

of the most intense fighting seen by the British Army since the Korean War.

And as the casualties mount, the film analyses through these men the cost of

the fighting, what is being achieved in Afghanistan, and whether too much is

being asked of the men on the frontline.

Archive Format.......: RAR

Duration.............: 1:00:55

Video Codec..........: XviD 1.2 SMP