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Deadly toll in Afghanistan heaps pressure on Brown

Posted on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 and is filed under New York Times, Politics, The White House. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Three 18-year-old soldiers on their first tour of duty have been named as the victims of the most deadly attack on British forces in Afghanistan. They died trying to save their comrades in an ambush which claimed the lives of two other members of their platoon and severely injured five others. The soldiers from The Rifles regiment were part of a 30-man team searching enemy country in the Wishtan area early on Friday when a bomb ripped through the 15ft-high walls of a compound. While a medical team was being flown in by helicopter, the men pulled back to regroup and were caught in the next part of the attack – a second bomb ignited by a “daisy chain” mechanism. The details of eight British…

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