| The Black Watch ran into a series of terrorist bombs yesterday as it moved towards the "triangle of death" around Baghdad to take over from American marines due to join an assault on the rebel city of Fallujah. Its base at Camp Dogwood, 20 miles west of the town of Mahmudiyah, also came under rocket or mortar attack as the troops moved in, a British military spokesman said. The battle group and its vehicles were forced to stop four times by roadside bombs planted by insurgents determined to give it a bloody welcome, the spokesman said. No troops were hurt in the attacks. One soldier was killed and three injured in a roadside accident shortly after the troops arrived, the Ministry of Defence said, but no hostile action was involved. In e-mails seen by The Telegraph, a senior officer involved in planning the deployment called the move the "convoy of death", saying that it would be "10 miles long and an easy target for ambush". |