British soldier killed, 5 injured, in Afghanistan

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The 18th British soldier to be killed in the war against terrorism since Friday and the 38th to be killed in Afghanistan since 2001 -


UK soldier killed by Afghan mine

Thirty-eight UK soldiers have been killed in Afganistan since 2001

A British soldier has been killed and five others "very seriously injured" by a landmine in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

They were part of a Nato-led security patrol which had strayed into an unmarked minefield.

A seventh soldier received minor injuries in the incident in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan.

The total number of UK troops killed while on operations in Afghanistan since 2001 now stands at 38.

'Injured evacuated'

The MoD said the injured were being treated at a military medical facility at Camp Bastion and that it was too soon to establish exactly how the incident happened.

A statement from the headquarters of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Kabul confirmed seven soldiers were injured.

"There was no contact with insurgents during the incident," it said.

"An extraction operation was successfully undertaken and the injured evacuated to an Isaf medical facility.

"Sadly one soldier has since died of his wounds."

No further details of the dead soldier will be released until his next of kin have been informed.



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RE: British soldier kille

Talibans are quite tough, 5 years of wars against the most powerful nations in the world, and they are still alive and apperently well. So guys , what is the next step?

 

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Re: RE: British soldier kille

Talibans are quite tough, 5 years of wars against the most powerful nations in the world, and they are still alive and apperently well. So guys , what is the next step?

leave and let the yankees deal with it. Thay are the cause.

 

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Two more British soldiers also died yesterday. So, yesterday, 3 more British troops died in combat. This week, 19 British soldiers have died in war.
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Three British troops killed in action
By Michael Evans

The week's death toll in Afghanistan has risen to 19, as a US general talks of a new al-Qaeda threat

THREE British soldiers died in Afghanistan yesterday. One of them was killed when a landmine exploded in northern Helmand province; another died in a clash with the Taleban, also in northern Helmand; and the third soldier, from the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, died of wounds he suffered in an incident last Friday.

It was the same incident in which Ranger Anare Draiva was killed. The family of the soldier was with him when he died in hospital.

In the landmine incident, a British patrol strayed into an unmarked mined area. Five others were “very seriously” injured and another soldier received minor injuries. They have all been moved to a military hospital at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand.

In the second incident yesterday, in which there was a shoot-out with the Taleban when one soldier was killed, another received serious wounds. He was also taken to the Camp Bastion military hospital.

Nineteen servicemen have now died in Afghanistan in less than a week. Of those, 14 were on board the RAF Nimrod MR2 that crashed on Saturday.

America’s top military commander in the country told The Times that Nato and the US coalition forces in Afghanistan were now faced with an alliance of three foreign-trained enemy forces, all of whom were affiliated to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda ideology.

Lieutenant-General Karl Eikenberry, commander of Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan, with 20,000 US soldiers under his wing, said that foreign fighters had come back into Afghanistan and were providing training to all the groups who had now sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda.

President Musharraf of Pakistan arrived in Kabul yesterday to talk about forging closer links between the two nations in countering terrorism and stopping insurgents using the border to cross into each other’s territory.

The head of Nato, accompanied by alliance ambassadors who were also in Kabul yesterday, declared that the alliance would not be deterred by the resurgence of the Taleban.

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the Nato Secretary-General, said: “The ongoing violence in some areas will not deter Nato from carrying out its mission.”

He signed a declaration with President Karzai of Afghanistan, pledging Nato’s long-term commitment to his country.

General Eikenberry said,from Kabul, that the alliance linked to al-Qaeda consisted of the Taleban, which he described as a loose confederation of militant Afghans; Haqqani, led by Jalalludin Haqqani, a former Mujahidin commander and a radical Islamist; and HIG, Hezb-i-Islami Gulbuddin, run by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a war-lord and long-time associate of bin Laden.

General Eikenberry said these three groups had a symbiotic relationship and were receiving money from abroad.


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