Troops kill boy, 10, after Afghan attack

[951-Riverside]

KANDAHAR - A single bullet fired by a Canadian soldier killed a 10-year-old boy and wounded a teenager who approached a security cordon on a motorcycle about two hours after a suicide bomber killed a Canadian soldier and a young Afghan girl in a fiery strike outside the gates of Camp Nathan Smith.

Three other Canadian soldiers were injured in the afternoon attack carried out just days after Canadian and NATO forces routed Taliban insurgents with an aerial and artillery assault in nearby Panjwaii and less than 24 hours after two Canadian soldiers were injured, one seriously, when insurgents ambushed a convoy with small arms fire.

Yesterday's attack and its bloody aftermath occurred about 3:15 p.m., just 700 metres outside the fortified camp in Kandahar City when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a returning Canadian convoy, engulfing a LAV-III and G-Wagon in flames and destroying both.

Cpl. David Braun, a recently arrived soldier with the second battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Man., is the eighth Canadian soldier to die here this month and the 19th since operations moved to the south in February. His three comrades are in the airfield hospital in good condition

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6638a788-696b-4b7a-8451-013c29309310

[Spazito]

1. Oh geez....

I don't hold up much hope that any investigation will be anything other than a whitewashing, sadly.

[Igel]

2. Sounds like little whitewashing would be necessary. n/t

[Spazito]

3. hmmm, I don't support my government whitewashing anything...

but each to their own I guess. The US government is expert in this area, I suspect our current government will take heed of that, sadly.

[Igel]

4. Given what was in the article,

I wouldn't vote to convict.

Suicide bomber hits convoy. A couple of hours later somebody on a motorcycle crashes through the outer perimeter at high speed ... unless the guy shooting was given notice that Ahmed and his sibling were going to be coming over for tea ... I'd suspect the worst.

Sad, really. It would be interesting to hear why the kid on the motorbike did what he's reported to have done.

[PointAndLaugh]

5. Ahmed? Who's Ahmed?

I didn't see anyone by the name of Ahmed in the article?

[Ms. Clio]

8. oh, that's just his idea of a little joke

very revealing, isn't it?

[Spazito]

6. Or, dare I say, proof that this was, indeed, what happened...

We do know that lies are told as to what really happened aka the rape/murder of the 14 year old girl and her family, etc. I do not start with the premise that the troops involved are telling the truth.

The investigation must begin by proving that the motorcycle crashed the perimeter and, if so, what are the ROEs regarding situations like this. Are they clear? Who is responsible for the troops clearly understanding the ROEs, etc.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. Great, just F'n great - Now us Canuks are gonna get lumped in with PNACers

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Thanks alot Martin and Harper

I wish Chretien was still on the helm for this one . . .

(sigh)