British Troops Use Desert Bases To Suppress Taleban Insurgents

HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN - MAY 14: An Afghan teenager play with the helmet of a British Soldier from the Grenadier Guards during a reassurance patrol in a village, in a location in the desert in the Garmsir District on May 14, 2007 in Southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Nato troops operating in the south and in the province of Helmand are preparing for a new wave of the offensive after US-led Afghan troops killed the Taliban's top military commander Mullah Dadullah last weekend. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)