Afghan Roadside Bomb Kills 4 Canadian GIs

[maddezmom]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A roadside bomb exploded Saturday as a Canadian armored vehicle drove by, killing four soldiers, the Canadian military said.

The attack occurred at about 7:30 a.m. as Canadian forces patrolled the Shah-Wali-Kot district village of Gomboth, about 25 miles north of Kandahar, Canadian military spokesman Lt. Mark MacIntyre said.

Most of Canada's 2,200 troops in Afghanistan are based in Kandahar, where they have taken over security from U.S. forces.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/ap_on_re_as/afghan_soldiers_killed;_

R.I.P. :(

[Spazito]

1. This is going to put more heat on the Prime Minister

The Canadian mission was changed from one of peacekeeping to one of combat and many Canadians are not happy about it. The mission was changed when the Libs were still in power but many Canadians didn't realize it until after the faux Cons won their minority government.

[Minnesota Libra]

2. To the families in Canada, I am so very sorry for your loss and...........

....I can only hope the Canadian PM begins to put pressure on the WH Idiot to get ALL troops out of there.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. I thought we needed troops in Afghanistan?

:shrug:

[Minnesota Libra]

6. Someone please tell me what good our troops are doing there...............

....these days?? Any good they may have been doing has long passed now - at least from what reports I see. So if you can offer some evidence I haven't seen recently please enlighten me.

[DavidDvorkin]

Yahoo can be remarkably sloppy with their headlines.

[0007]

5. What's wrong with Canadian GIs? Does Government Issue only

apply to the U.S.?

[Spazito]

8. Canada does not refer to our soldiers as GIs, that is purely an

american designation but it is not surprising US media use it as all their news items are from a strictly US perspective using US terminology. Here is the same news from a Canadian news outlet perspective:

4 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/04/22/afghanistan-deaths060422.html

Four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060416/afghanistan_soldier_060422/20060422?hub=TopStories

Roadside bomb claims four Canadian soldiers
Canadian Press

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060422.wkilled0422/BNStory/Front/home

Note GI is not a term used to describe our soldiers.

[0007]

9. Thank you for bringing that out, Spazito.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Would we refer to American soldiers as Tommies?

Same thing.

Whatever the real origin of "GI", it refers to American soldiers, not just to soldiers.

[niallmac]

7. Really sorry Canada. But you could "just say no."

Please don't send your troops off to die as a 'courtesy' to America.

[Darth_Kitten]

11. How terrible.

:( I'm so sick of all the tragic loss of life.

[CHIMO]

12. Slain Canadians to be honoured before flight from Kandahar

Slain Canadians to be honoured before flight from Kandahar
Last Updated Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:05:45 EDT
CBC News

Members of the military coalition in Afghanistan will attend a ceremony at Kandahar Airport at dawn on Monday to bid farewell to four Canadian soldiers killed Saturday.

The ceremony will be held as the coffins carrying the bodies of Cpl. Matthew Dinning, Lieut. William Turner, Bombardier Myles Mansell and Cpl. Randy Payne are loaded into a Canadian Hercules aircraft for the trip back to Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/04/23/kandahar-ceremony060423.html

Some faces to the names.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/afghanistan/casualties/2006.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/afghanistan/casualties/2002-2005.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/afghanistan/casualties/coalition.html