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White House Stages Photo-op of Obama Saluting Return of Soldier’s ...
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In a despicable display of gratuitous patriotism, the White House trotted out President Obama at 4 o’clock in the morning to photograph the president saluting the coffins carrying dead soldiers returning from Afghanistan. Pardon my cynicism, but I would have been more impressed if we learned about this display years after Obama’s last ...
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Suicide Bomber Kills 35 Near Pakistan's Capital
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A suicide bomber killed thirty-five people outside a bank near Pakistan's capital Monday. The U.N. said spreading violence has forced it to start pulling out some expatriate staff and suspend long-term development work in areas along the Afghanistan border. Only hours after the first blast another suicide bomber struck in the eastern city of ...
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Afghan policeman kills five British troops..
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Five British soldiers have been killed and several others injured in a gun attack by a "rogue" Afghan policeman in Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence said today. The soldiers – three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the RoyalMilitary police – were killed by gunshot wounds suffered in the attack, which happened in ...
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Eight cops including 5 British were killed in Afghanistan
In an incident five British soldiers died in southern part of Afghanistan when a rougue Afghan soldier opened fire on colleague soldiers killing eight person in all , told Britain's Ministry of Defense on Wednesday. Three of the deceased are thought to be Afghan soldiers while five of them are British. This incident took place in Helmond ...
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- News Source: The Independent | 19 days agoIn life, he was a Tigger-like extrovert, but his return home yesterday passed in respectful silence. Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid was the 224th British soldier to die in Afghanistan, killed by a roadside bomb he was trying to dismantle. He was a bomb...
- News Source: The Scotsman | 19 days agoBrown will today make clear he will not be "deterred, dissuaded or diverted" from Britain's mission in Afghanistan, despite a new poll showing nearly three-quarters of people believe UK troops should be withdrawn within 12 months. He will use a...
- News Source: The independent | 19 days agoBut there is growing concern in London and in Nato governments about the time it is taking for the Obama administration to decide its strategy. "It's make your mind up time," one minister said. A Ministry of Defence source added: "Without a decision...
- News Source: The Guardian | 19 days agoTributes poured in today for the five soldiers killed by a policeman in Afghanistan , as the body of a respected explosives expert was repatriated amid emotional scenes. It emerged that one of the five shot dead in Helmand province was about to be...
- News Source: Times Online | 19 days agoYesterday, as his body was returned home from Afghanistan, his mother and his wife spoke of their pride in the bomb disposal expert who made safe 64 improvised explosive devices (IED) during five months in Afghanistan. His widow, Christina, said:...
- News Source: The Guardian | 19 days agoRepatriation ceremony of Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, of the Royal Logistic Corps, who was killed in Afghanistan. Photograph: Sgt Ian Forsyth RLC/PA The wife of one of the British soldiers killed by an Afghan policeman has said she does not know how...
- Blog Source: www.goodasis.comA British soldier who was killed trying to defuse a bomb in Afghanistan will be repatriated to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire later. Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, 30, had made safe 64 explosive devices and found 11 bomb making centres during ...
- Blog Source: maggiesnotebook.blogspot.comStaff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, known as Oz Schmid, was a British bomb expert. He was killed in an IED explosion as he attempted to defuse the device in the town of Sangin, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Staff Sergeant Olaf Oz Schmid ... British soldiers
- Blog Source: xenophilius.wordpress.comOlaf Schmid An army bomb disposal expert who saved countless lives in Afghanistan was killed on his final mission in the warzone. Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, 30, died instantly when a roadside bomb he was trying to disarm blew up. ...
- Blog Source: www.weaselzippers.netHe is the third IED Disposal soldier to be killed in the last year as the Taliban increase their bombing campaign against the British force. Among the great skill and courage in the ordnance disposal teams S/Sgt Schmid, 30, ...
- Blog Source: helmandblog.blogspot.comThe main threat to British soldiers in Afghanistan comes not from suicide bombers or gunfire but from improvised explosive devices (IEDs). A rifle might be the soldier's constant companion but a keen pair of eyes is just as likely to keep him safe.
- Blog Source: www.blackfive.netPhoto of Staff Sergeant Schmid courtesy of the MoD. Mike Yon posts about the loss of Staff Sergeant Olaf "Oz" Sean George Schmid. From Mike's email this morning: Oz had been killed in Afghanistan. Oz was one very good soldier who stood ...
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