Angry Afghans are turning to the Taleban for support

Aid Failures Are Killing UK Soldiers in Afghanistan, Think Tank Claims

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (gpeev@scotsman.com)

BRITISH troops are dying in Afghanistan because the government's aid department is failing to get food to the poor in the southern provinces, an international security and development think tank claims.

Angry Afghans are turning to the Taleban for support, said the Senlis Council, a French think tank which has staff in the volatile Helmand province.

Its founder told The Scotsman it spent its research budget on food after it found thousands starving in refugee camps and in the province's hospital.