Jul 12th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Private John Brackpool is among the latest UK casualties in Afghanistan
UK forces' mission in Afghanistan is showing "signs of success", despite the deaths of 10 soldiers in 15 days, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has insisted.
Giving up the fight against the Taliban would leave the UK "less safe as a country", because a "chain of terror" linked the two countries, he said.
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