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| Afghanistan |
| Cdn Medic killed in fiery suicide attack |
| 2006-08-12 |
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - The Canadian soldier killed Friday in a fiery suicide attack has been identified as a medic, Cpl. Andrew James Eykelenboom, who served with 1st Field Ambulance based in Edmonton. He was killed when a suicide bomber plowed an explosives-laden pickup truck into a NATO convoy near Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometres south of Kandahar. Two soldiers with him in the Canadian Forces G-Wagon were not injured. Eykelenboom was the seventh Canadian to be killed in southern Afghanistan within a nine-day period, and the 26th since Canada deployed soldiers to Afghanistan in early 2002. Witnesses said there was a giant blast from the bomb, followed by a huge fire. It took several hours to extract Eykelenboom's body from the burned vehicle. |
| Posted by:john |
| #1 This will tell you everything you need to know; If muslim killers can't use an ambulance for transporting armed, uninjured jihadis or binLadens away from the battlefield, they'll blow it up, along with anything else useful accomplished by or in the West. |
| Posted by: Galloways Outcropping 2006-08-12 13:01 |