British soldiers killed in mortar attack in Afghanistan

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British soldiers killed in mortar attack in Afghanistan

Two members of Royal Logistics Corps die after Taliban fire mortars at forward base in Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand province

• Conal Urquhart
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 May 2012 19.44 BST

Soldiers of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh. Two members of the Royal Logistics Corp attached to the battalion's battlegroup were killed on Friday. Photograph: Major Paul Smyth/PA

Two British soldiers have been killed in a mortar attack on an army base in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.
The two men were members of the Royal Logistics Corps and were attached to the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh Battlegroup. Their families have been informed.
The soldiers were in forward operating base Ouellette, in the northern part of Nahr-e Saraj district, in Helmand province, when it came under "indirect" mortar fire from Taliban fighters on Friday.
Such mortars attacks on army bases in Afghanistan rarely cause injury because the initial explosion from the launch tube warns everybody in the area that a mortar has been fired.
A spokesman for Task Force Helmand, Major Ian Lawrence, said: "Sadly, I must report that today two soldiers from the Royal Logistic Corps, attached to 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh Battlegroup, were killed in an indirect fire attack on their base.
"The thoughts and condolences of everyone serving in the Combined Force are with their families and friends."
A total of 412 members of UK forces have died since operations in Afghanistan began in October 2001.

[Breshna]

Here is the..differences

...between British army.

and the U.S.A army.

U.S.A army has...mostly criminals

who were given an...option

Jail or join..Army?

They join... the Army.

U.S.A Army has Murderer's...Rapist', Drug dealer's e.c.t.

Whiles British...Army.

You go through... extreme vetting

if you ever..got arrested.

You can't get into...the British Army.


British Army...is Disciplined...

Whiles U.S.A army...has 0 discipline.


Did...some research.

Why the U.S.A are...behind

so many crimes...murders?

[Breshna]

We need to stop wasting money on these futile wars - The Afghans are not wanting to be a puppet state of the west. While we throw hard earned taxpayers money at a war that will never be won we are in fact creating more of a likely hood that we will be attacked by terrorists We are radicalizing groups of people who would not have even known where Britain was.
It is a sad indictment of our modern world that we think that we the west have the right answers on life and so called democracy.
Lets get Mr Blair into the war crimes tribunal with Mr bush and then we have the right to make judgments about the way the world runs.
The Hague War crimes tribunal have totally turned a blind eye to the west's misdemeanors. perhaps it will always be the defeated or weaker nations that are held to account.
How many innocent people have to be killed before the international community hold these criminals to account.






Gordon Brown says "We must fight on"
What does he mean "We"?. I don't see any politicians taking any personal risks here.
"We" are in Afghanistan because our special relationship partner told us we should. We haven't been given permission to leave yet. The UK army will remain until the US army decides its had enough (just as it did in Vietnam, and just as the Soviet army did in Afghanistan before us.) Then we will decide the objectives have been achieved and it is time to come home. Not until.

British dead and wounded in Afghanistan, month by month
What is the human cost of the war in Afghanistan?

Afghans still don't count as human then? Or are there no Afghan dead and wounded in this war?
Congratulations on another well thought-out and sensitive headline.



^This is what the British...people have

got to...say.