The first major Operation 'Tora Gorga' is completed in Afghanistan 28.04.11
6In Helmand's Nad-e Ali District, a major search operation has been carried out in an area thought to be a Taliban safe-haven. The soldiers of B Company, Second Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, worked alongside the Afghan National Army and Police, during Operation Tora Gorga. They searched a series of compounds used by insurgents to launch ambushes near the village of Shin Kalay. During the operation nobody knew what they would find, or what the Taliban would do; stand and fight, try to run, or hide among the people but there was a sense of danger in the air. The Gurkhas provided the security, as the Afghan forces approached the compounds. There are a lot of benefits in searching the compounds, If there are any enemy there, they will be frightened, won't be able to fight and will leave. For the Gurkhas, it's frustrating but that is the Afghan way of doing things. Their first major operation over it's just the start of a very busy summer.