Army Top Brass Warn: Afghanistan Will Be Our Next Northern Ireland Four British Marines Killed Four British Marines Killed Brown Flies to Battle Zone

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SENIOR British army offi cers fear the deployment of troops in Afghanistan's Helmand province will turn into an operation lasting as long as that in Northern Ireland.

The military chiefs' concerns come as the names of the latest British casualties, four Royal Marines, were released yesterday - on the day Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a surprise visit to the province.

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Army Top Brass Warn: Afghanistan Will Be Our Next Northern Ireland Four British Marines Killed Four British Marines Killed Brown Flies to Battle Zone

Sergeant John Manuel, Corporal Marc Birch and Marine Damian Davies were killed by a suspected suicide bomber aged just 13 in Helmand on Friday afternoon.

Earlier in the day, Lance Corporal...

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