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Three more British deaths take Afghan
toll to 19 in 6 days. By Matthew Hickley Defence Correspondence * Daily Mail Thursday, September 7, 2006. THREE British soldiers were killed in southern One man was killed and five others critically injured,
when they walked into an unmarked minefield during a foot patrol in northern In a separate clash with the Taliban nearby, one
soldier was killed and four others injured one of them seriously and hours
later more soldiers were wounded in another fire-fight. The third soldier to die yesterday, from the 1st
Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, succumbed to wounds which he suffered
during a clash last Friday, which also claimed the life of Ranger Anare Draiva. All those injured were being treated last night at
Camp bastion, the main British military base in The latest day of bloodshed brought the
death toll among British forces in the country since 2001 to 40, including 19
since last Friday. Coalition forces in The minefield incident happened at midday local time
as the soldiers mounted a foot patrol in northern Officials stressed that the area is one of the most
heavily mined in the world, with millions of mines buried by both sides during
fighting between Soviet forces and the mujahadeen during the 1980s. Campaign groups estimate that 10 to 12 people each day
are killed or maimed by anti-personnel landmines in The Ministry of Defence was last night withholding the
location and Army unit involved until next of kin have been informed. The
latest death underlines the extreme dangers facing British troops in [John Reid the previous Minister was of
the opinion that it would be unlikely a shot would be fired as we were there to
help the Afghans to dispose of their lucrative drug industry or something along
those lines] The cause of Saturday’s RAF Nimrod spy plane crash in
neighbouring The new head of the British Army, Chief of the General
Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, said yesterday he believed British forces
were likely to be in Although the Government is formally committed to a
three – year operation, Sir Richard said: ‘Get real. We will be there for the length of time it
takes to do the job. [Wait a moment does this not sound very
much to us of the confident Vietnam-speak of the 60s which ended in ignominious
defeat and a divided country and tens of thousands of American casualties. What a Waste! What a War!] General Dannatt also said: It would be unreasonable for us at the end of three years
to turn round and tell the Foreign Office and Department for International
Development: “You crack on, the Army’s going home.” [WHY NOT! We ask is it not for ALL the Afghans to decide
THEIR future –not the so-called Democratic-Duo who have enough on their plate
in extricating themselves out of A study released by the Royal Statistical Society
yesterday said that the death rate among Nato troops in It said an average of five soldiers a week have been
killed out of the 18,500 Nato troops serving in Afghanistan since May compared
to the 43-day battle for Iraq in 2003, when the UK lost 33 of its 46,000
deployed troops. Yesterday the Ministry of Defence named another
soldier killed in a road side bomb attack in southern He died along side 20-year –old Gunner Stephen Wright
when their lightly-armoured Land-Rover was blown apart by a hidden device near
Ad Dayr, north of [These deaths need not have happened IF
instead of Tony Blair overspending on his Fantasy European Army had taken the
trouble to purchase from a British company in South Africa an excellent armoured
personnel vehicle the RG-31s already purchased by America and Germany and
others –why not ask the MoD to explain WHY our soldiers do not deserve the same
protection as enjoyed by their closest ally? While we are about it –what is
happening about our troops getting more air cover –but then they have failed to
train Apache pilots and even in the purchasing of the helicopters we paid
double the price paid by Israel because we did NOT purchase DIRECT.] Gunner Vanua, who was single joined the Army four
years ago and was described as a ‘tough, hard -working and resourceful soldier. He had already served on operations in His commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Jon Campbell
paid tribute to Gunner Vanua as a ‘superb soldier’ and a credit to *
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