This is what the MoD had to say:-
"Dispatches - Fighting the Taliban"
There is a some follow-up coverage of the television documentary "Dispatches - Fighting the Taliban" shown on UK network Channel Four last night. The film features a UK Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team in Southern Afghanistan during September 2006.
We pay tribute to the courage, fortitude and professionalism of the British Service personnel seen in this film, which also showed how the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police are increasingly shouldering responsibility for their country's security, and taking the fight to the Taliban.
The MOD went to great lengths to accommodate the documentary maker's wishes and arrange for him to visit our front line troops. However, as always, operational considerations will have effected our ability to provide everything that he wanted.
The documentary maker voiced concerns over logistic resupply and whether NATO and Afghan forces were winning. Brigadier Jerry Thomas, the commander of the UK task force in Afghanistan, has asked the MoD to issue the following statement:
"The situation in Helmand Province has changed markedly since the Dispatches film was made. Since then, British forces have moved into new areas throughout the province, including Garmsir, and made real improvements to security. We have inflicted heavy losses on the Taliban, denied them freedom of movement, and made great progress in winning the hearts and minds of the local people.
"This remains a very challenging mission, but we are winning. Just last week, Royal Marines of the UK Task Force commando forces engaged and destroyed a Taliban training camp in the north east of the province, which will allow contractors to carry out repairs to a hydro-electric dam in Kajaki, which will produce electricity for 1.8 million people in the south of Afghanistan who until now have had none.
"This success would not have been possible unless our forces were properly equipped and supplied. To be clear, I have not asked for additional helicopters and the supply system is working well, with no soldiers or marines running out of food. It is the nature of the conflict that they do not take more supplies than they need to carry; but we have an extraordinary resupply system in place to ensure that they do not run out."