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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Three UK soldiers killed in Iraq |
| 2004-11-04 |
| Three British troops have been killed in Iraq, the Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram has confirmed. The deaths, as well as a number of other casualties, happened in the area patrolled by the Black Watch, but no more details have yet been released. According to BBC radio a Warrior convoy was hit by an IED. From the BBC site it looks as though a Land Rover took the blast. Bastards. The media will fly about like panicked chickens over this. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #7 Aaagh, Seafarious - almost certainly too late for me to get one for you now. If you'd asked earlier in the day... As for the BBC - they and all the rest of the media have got blood on their hands, as has everyone who made a fuss about the troop relocation and made it into a political issue. Idiots who don't understand the consequences of their actions, or don't pause to think. It's only now, after heads have literally rolled, that they've belatedly taken something like a responsible approach to hostage-taking. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-11-04 6:36:07 PM |
| #6 :( |
| Posted by: Anon4021 2004-11-04 6:00:24 PM |
| #5 OT: Since I've got all my UK friends in one thread, can I ask a favor? Can one of you blokes get me a copy of today's Daily Mirror? I'd love to hang it on my wall...right next to my copy of L'Express that says (in French) "GWB: The man who ruined our year" |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-11-04 3:52:04 PM |
| #4 I just don't understand why the Jihadi's haven't figured this out yet... If any Jihadi's are reading here - hear me and hear me well....if you kill sympathetic BBC or Hollywood types...you will get endless media coverage. 24/7 for as long as you can drag it out. Not that I'm condoning that or anything. But you will just get so MUCh more bang for your buck. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-11-04 3:49:43 PM |
| #3 Totally agree Shep, if there is *any* evidence that these soldiers deaths were in some way attributable to the BBC reports, then heads should roll... |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2004-11-04 3:02:08 PM |
| #2 The BBC have helped the Jihadis in every way they possibly could, first the BBC break the story that are troops are going northward a full TWO weeks before they moved giving the eneamy TWO weeks to prepare for them and even going so far as to tell the Jihadis the location are troops are going, then we get to see the convoy set off almost fcking live on the TV, since weve been at the new base rockets are landing in increasing numbers every day, not the BBCs fault directly that but today they told us exactly what the troops were doing, what todays missions were gonna be, that thier expanding the area of operations. The army should kick (the fck) out any BBC journalists imbeddid with them and lock up any 'journalists' seen in the area, this BBC has become nothing more then a realtime information service for the jihadis and Baathists. Wait for the next peice of important mission info being spewed out over the airwaves. Kill any BBC camera men just like that rooters camera man the other day- they are rooting for the other side! |
| Posted by: Shep UK 2004-11-04 1:49:25 PM |
| #1 In retrospect, I think the photo used on the BBC mainpage is an archive image, so scratch the comment about the Land Rover. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-11-04 1:30:37 PM |