The insurgent body count is certainly rising sharply. Nato announced yesterday that so far more than 500 had died in the first nine days of Operation Medusa, led by Canadian forces to drive fighters out of an area where they were threatening the crucial city of Kandahar. That is a heavy blow to an organisation that is only reckoned to number 7,000 full- and part-time gunmen.
That's on top of the 700 already killed before the operation began and the 700 trapped in the south. And I'm not sure this latest number includes the 200 killed over the weekend.
I don't know where the Telegraph got the 7,000 Taleban number from except I note that add "part time gunmen" to their count. All counts I've seen put the estimated force at 2,000 regular Taleban.
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