be rubbing their hands and laughing because they've taken out New Zealanders who thought all along they were the good chaps on the block and would be treated accordingly, but they're in a war zone." Jones, on the other hand, said troops were not being targeted because they were from New Zealand, instead it was the result of the success and progress that had been made in Bamiyan. Jones said the Taliban wants to show that there was no safe place in Afghanistan. "There's a deliberate effort to target these tall poppies and say we're going to have a go and we're going to show them that the Taliban can stay around," Jones told Close Up. Key to visit families Key told TVNZ's Close Up programme he would visit the families of the fallen soldiers. "Like any New Zealander I feel the enormous pain of losing our brave men and woman and its under my watch as Prime Minister and I have to take responsibility for that," he said. Jones told Close Up he had spoken to all three families. "Each of them, of course, is sad and it's a tragic time to be able talk to them, but they understand what their children were doing, they are quite proud of their kids, and their kids had all passed on that they were proud of what they were achieving over in Afghanistan," Jones said. He said the deaths had also been felt within the Defence Force. "We're a small military