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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bomb-disposal-training-for-afghans.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A student on the Counter-Improvised Explosives course preparing his explosives at the Helmand Police Training Centre" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-bomb-disposal-training-for-afghans.jpg" alt="A student on the Counter-Improvised Explosives course preparing his explosives at the Helmand Police Training Centre"/></a></p>
<p>Two British bomb disposal operators have described the importance of passing on their skills to the Afghan National Police (ANP) for the first time.</p>
<p>Soldiers from the British Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Task Force recently finished a training course to teach the ANP how to destroy Taliban roadside bombs in Helmand province.</p>
<p>Corporal Liam Payne, 26, from Newbury, Berkshire, said: &#8220;These guys are the first ANP explosive hazard reduction team to be trained and the first police carrying out counter-IED work in Helmand province.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re seen as heroes in their communities and they are the envy of their colleagues.&#8221;</p>
<p>His fellow bomb disposal operator, Corporal Aaron McGuffog, 30, from Grimsby, South Humberside, added that the Taliban was &#8220;petrified&#8221; of Afghan soldiers and police learning the skills to tackle roadside bombs.</p>
<p>Team leader Captain Khan Muhammad said the job was &#8220;very dangerous&#8221;, but necessary.</p>
<p>&#8220;This course benefited my team as they were only search trained before &#8211; they could find the IEDs but did not know how to deal with them.</p>
<p>&#8220;I volunteered for counter-IED training to make Lashkar Gar a safer place.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a very dangerous job but we do it for the safety of the people of Afghanistan,&#8221; he said.</p>
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