KILLING FIELDS
How kids are being left to the mercy of the Taliban after British forces pull out of Afghanistan
Oliver Harvey
Updated: 22:45, 3 Aug 2021
ON a dustbowl football pitch amid Afghanistan’s killing fields, I watched as a British soldier was mobbed by happy kids.
It was 2008 and Staff Sergeant Dave Thomas had helped rebuild the youngsters’ orphanage in the shadow of the British Army’s Lashkar Gah HQ.
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Happy children greet Staff Sgt Dave Thomas at an Afghan orphanageCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
One boy, Qudratullah, nine, slung his arm around Staff Sgt Thomas’s neck to thank him as laughter floated on the afternoon breeze.
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