Cpl Rodney Wilson: 150th British soldier killed in Iraq War
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150th British soldier killed in Iraq named
8th June 2007
Daily Mail
The 150th British soldier to be killed in Iraq has been named as Wiltshire-based Corporal Rodney Wilson, 30.
The British death toll in Iraq reached 150 when the soldier was shot during a patrol in Basra, the MoD said.
Corporal Wilson, from the 4th Battalion The Rifles, was part of a patrol conducting a search and detention operation in the Al Atiyah district, north west of Basra City, when he was shot by small arms fire, the MoD said.
He is the 150th British forces fatality since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Corporal Rodney Wilson, the 150th soldier to be killed in Iraq
The Ministry of Defence said that Corporal Wilson was shot at 2.20am local time (11.20pm BST).
He was airlifted to the British base at Basra Air Station for medical treatment but he died at 03.40am (00.40am BST).
Three other coalition troops were injured during the operation but they are not believed to be in a life-threatening condition.
Gunmen attacked the house of a senior police official in Diyala province today, killing 14 people including his wife, and kidnapped his four children, police sources said.
They said the two brothers of Colonel Ali Delyan Ahmed, the head of police in Baquba north of Baghdad, were among the dead.
It was not clear if Ahmed was at his house in Kanaan, south east of Baquba, at the time of the attack.
Diyala is a large religiously and ethnically mixed province which has seen some of the worst violence in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in March 2003.
Killings and attacks by al Qaeda occur regularly in Diyala, which is a mainly Sunni Arab province but also has significant Shi'ite and Kurdish populations.
About 3,000 extra U.S. troops have been sent to Diyala to combat a recent spike in violence.
dailymail.co.uk
8th June 2007
Daily Mail
The 150th British soldier to be killed in Iraq has been named as Wiltshire-based Corporal Rodney Wilson, 30.
The British death toll in Iraq reached 150 when the soldier was shot during a patrol in Basra, the MoD said.
Corporal Wilson, from the 4th Battalion The Rifles, was part of a patrol conducting a search and detention operation in the Al Atiyah district, north west of Basra City, when he was shot by small arms fire, the MoD said.
He is the 150th British forces fatality since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Corporal Rodney Wilson, the 150th soldier to be killed in Iraq
The Ministry of Defence said that Corporal Wilson was shot at 2.20am local time (11.20pm BST).
He was airlifted to the British base at Basra Air Station for medical treatment but he died at 03.40am (00.40am BST).
Three other coalition troops were injured during the operation but they are not believed to be in a life-threatening condition.
Gunmen attacked the house of a senior police official in Diyala province today, killing 14 people including his wife, and kidnapped his four children, police sources said.
They said the two brothers of Colonel Ali Delyan Ahmed, the head of police in Baquba north of Baghdad, were among the dead.
It was not clear if Ahmed was at his house in Kanaan, south east of Baquba, at the time of the attack.
Diyala is a large religiously and ethnically mixed province which has seen some of the worst violence in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in March 2003.
Killings and attacks by al Qaeda occur regularly in Diyala, which is a mainly Sunni Arab province but also has significant Shi'ite and Kurdish populations.
About 3,000 extra U.S. troops have been sent to Diyala to combat a recent spike in violence.
dailymail.co.uk