Ross revisits Helmand province one year on. Ross Kemp Return To Afghanistan sees Ross join up with the Canterbury-based Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (5 Scots).
“I've been in Afghanistan with 5 Scots for a month and it’s a very different war since I was here a year ago but the fighting with the Taliban is as intense as ever”, Ross Kemp.
Ross investigates how things have changed in the year since he was last in the war torn province, how the British and coalition forces are combating the changing tactics of the Taliban, as well as looking into the conditions the troops face and how the reconstruction of this war torn country is progressing.
Ross said, “The war’s changed in that the Taliban are using far more IEDs and anti-personnel mines. You don’t have to feed an anti-personnel mine; you don’t have to feed an IED.”
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan was broadcast in January 2008 and followed 1 Royal Anglian Regiment in Helmand province.
