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| Spanish female soldier killed in Afghanistan |
| 2007-02-22 |
| The soldiers were travelling in one of five armoured vehicles supporting Italian forces training in Afghanistan. Spain has about 600 peacekeeping troops in the country. An attack on a Spanish military convoy in Afghanistan killed a female soldier and wounded two other troops on Wednesday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. "It was a roadside bomb which exploded when a convoy of Spanish troops was passing by. As a result a Spanish female soldier was killed and another Spanish soldier was wounded in Shindand district," Interior Ministry spokesman, Zemarai Bashari, said on Thursday. The soldiers were travelling in one of five armoured vehicles supporting Italian forces training in Afghanistan. Spain has about 600 peacekeeping troops in the country. At a meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Defence ministers last week in Seville, Spain was among countries that rejected a request from the alliance to send more. Bashari was joined at the news conference by the civilian spokesman for NATO in Afghanistan, Nicolas Lunt. Lunt was responding to suggestions that support for ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) from NATO member countries was dwindling. "This is a 37-country alliance. There is not going to be absolute unanimity all the time, there is always going to be debate. And as far as we are concerned in NATO we view that as healthy," Lunt said. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #2 They've already had plenty of reasons to 'get into the fight' but each one seems to make them pull further out of the fight instead. I don't expect this to be any different. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-02-22 19:49 |
| #1 I am sorry to hear of their loss. Now they have a reason to get into the fight. ANd get the Germans and French on-board too as somehting other than pansies. |
| Posted by: Brett 2007-02-22 17:41 |