(2) UK soldiers killed in Iraq attack

[muriel_volestrangler]

Two UK soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack near Basra in southern Iraq, a military spokesman has said.

It is thought the explosion, which took place as the troops were on patrol, was caused by a roadside device.

Another two soldiers were injured in the incident and have been taken to the Shaibah Logistics Base for emergency medical treatment.

In a separate incident, British boats at a base in Basra itself have been hit by mortar rounds or rockets.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5312344.stm

Not a good morning for Brits abroad - a tourist was killed in Amman by a gunman, and a soldier was killed, with 4 Afghan civilians, in a bomb in Kabul.

[xchrom]

1. they may have killed by a roadside bomb -- but they were

doomed by blair's incompetence.

[maddezmom]

2. 16 Brits killed in Afghanistan this year + 14 in the NATO crash

Sixteen British soldiers have now died in hostile action in Afghanistan this year, 15 of them in the southern province of Helmand where the bulk of a British deployment of 4,500 troops to Afghanistan is based.

The toll excludes 14 who were killed in the southern province of Kandahar on Saturday when a reconnaissance plane supporting a major anti-Taliban operation crashed because of a technical problem.

It was the single biggest loss of British troops in Afghanistan or Iraq since the US-led "war on terror" was launched in November 2001.

The spy plane, despatched from Qatar, had been operating in support of Operation Medusa launched on Saturday with 2,000 Afghan and NATO troops, which is aimed at driving seasoned Taliban fighters from a stronghold in Panjwayi district of Kandahar province.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060904/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest

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