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| Bomb Kills Three NATO Personnel in Southern Afghanistan |
| 2013-05-01 |
| [An Nahar] Three members of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led International Security Assistance Force were killed by a roadside kaboom in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, ISAF said in a statement. A front man declined to give any further details about the attack, which came a day after a civilian cargo plane crashed at Bagram airfield north of Kabul, killing all seven crew members. "Three International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised bomb attack in southern Afghanistan today," the statement said without stating the nationalities of the victims, in line with policy. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Talibs frequently use roadside kabooms against U.S.-led foreign troops and their Afghan allies. Afghan police and soldiers are taking over responsibility for security, but there is growing concern over the war-torn country's prospects after 2014 when all foreign combat deployments will finish. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Probably the same incident: Two of the soldiers who died in the attack on Tuesday were Corporal William Savage, 30, and Fusilier Samuel Flint, 21, from the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment Of Scotland (2 SCOTS). The third was Private Robert Hetherington, 25, a reservist with the 51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment Of Scotland (7 SCOTS), who was deployed with 2 SCOTS. --- Military chiefs are urgently reviewing the protection offered by the Army’s heavily-armoured Mastiff vehicles after three British soldiers were killed in one by a massive roadside bomb in Afghanistan. They are the first troops to have died in one of the 23-ton personnel carriers which have withstood hundreds of attacks since they were brought in specifically to combat the threat from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in 2007. Six other soldiers were injured by the Taliban bomb which may have contained up to 440lb of high explosives. The blast does not appear to have penetrated the £1million Mastiff’s armour. Instead, the casualties were apparently caused by the vehicle being blown into the air and the force of the impact when it landed and rolled on to its roof. Yesterday David Cameron confirmed he wanted defence chiefs to look into whether the right equipment was being used. He said: ‘We have done an enormous amount to improve the quality and quantity of protective vehicles that our soldiers use out in Afghanistan and, as I understand, it had a pretty good record of withstanding blasts from IEDs. 'I’m sure we’ll want to look at that carefully and put in place everything we can to make sure that our brave men and women have the best protective equipment they have. ‘The troops have said to me they were pretty satisfied with what they had, but we must always look at this.’ |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-01 23:42 |