{"id":3946,"date":"2010-02-15T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T13:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2010-02-15T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T13:53:16","slug":"afghan-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/afghan-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"UK troops &#8216;must win Afghan trust&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Afghan-trust.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3947\" title=\"UK troops 'must win Afghan trust' \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Afghan-trust.jpg\" alt=\"UK troops 'must win Afghan trust' \" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>The head of the UK&#8217;s armed forces, Sir Jock Stirrup, has said the killing of 12 civilians during Operation Moshtarak in Afghanistan was a &#8220;serious setback&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No British troops were involved when two rockets fired by coalition forces missed its target in Marjah.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Jock said the British had to focus on regaining the trust of the Afghan population but accidents were &#8220;inevitable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 15,000 Nato troops are searching for the Taliban in Marjah and Nad Ali.<\/p>\n<p>On the third day of the operation, the chief of the defence staff\u00a0 4&#8217;s Today programme the population would be safer under the Afghan government than the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;It is always damaging, but of course in any conflict situation accidents happen and we must remember that most of the civilian casualties&#8230; are caused by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 4)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK troops &#8216;must win Afghan trust&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,101,14],"tags":[2200,5024,254,752,753],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-afghan","tag-afghan-government","tag-afghan-president","tag-nato-afghans","tag-nato-afghans-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}