Six British soldiers were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by an kaboom in Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province in southern Afghanistan, British military officials said on Wednesday, taking the British toll to 404 since the 2001 US-led invasion to oust the Taliban.
The soldiers, five from the 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and one from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, were on a mounted patrol on Tuesday when their Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicle was struck, the British Ministry of Defence said.
"One of the Warriors suffered catastrophic damage in the course of that kaboom," Brigadier Patrick Sanders, commander of Task Force Helmand, told journalists in the picturesque provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
The attack, on Helmand's border with the unruly Kandahar province, marked the biggest single loss of life for British troops in Afghanistan since 2006. Britannia is the second largest contributor to the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-led war after the United States.
The Britons' vehicle was hit by a roadside kaboom, the deadliest weapon used by jihad boys, said senior Afghan police official Mohammad Ismail Hotak in Helmand.
"It is a reminder of the huge price that we are paying for the work we are doing in Afghanistan and the sacrifice that our troops have made and continue to make," British Prime Minister
David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
told the BBC.