UK News 05-11-2004 Suicide Bomb Kills Black Watch Three who: Defence minister Adam Ingram what: Confirms three Black Watch soldiers have been killed in ambush where: Iraq when: Yesterday snippet: "Three Black Watch soldiers died in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq after being drawn into an ambush yesterday," says The Sun. "Mortars were also fired at Our Boys in the notorious Triangle of Death near Baghdad." Eight others were injured and a civilian Iraqi interpreter also died. "The highly sophisticated and co-ordinated series of attacks... began when a patrol of two Warrior armoured personnel carriers, an advance element of the troops sent to secure the rebel-held territory, passed a roadside bomb," says The Telegraph. "It was detonated, ripping off the front four wheels of the first vehicle. As the second vehicle moved in to assist, the rebels launched a mortar attack sending it careering off the road." "After little more than a week at the rubble-strewn base in Camp Dogwood, the loss of three members of the Black Watch was met by shocked outbursts of fury from many relatives," says The Guardian, "and demands that Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, be true to his promise to have the soldiers home by Christmas." "People are just sitting at home waiting for the knock on the door to tell them if it is their son or husband who has been killed," Mrs Anne McMillan, who campaigned to save the regiment from being dispanded, tells The Independent`s Scotland correspondent Paul Kelbie in Perth. We all know they are soldiers and everybody expects that in war there will be casualties but it is still a massive shock when it happens." [... more]

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