3 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

[Newsjock]

Source: CBC News

Three Canadian soldiers were killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb detonated near their armoured vehicle on a notoriously dangerous stretch of highway in southern Afghanistan, the Canadian military said Thursday.

The soldiers were conducting a patrol in the volatile Zhari district in Kandahar province when an improvised explosive device exploded about 10:30 a.m. local time, Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson said at a news conference late Thursday morning in Kandahar.

A U.S. military convoy was bombed in roughly the same spot on April 15, an attack that left two marines dead and two seriously wounded.

... With the latest three deaths, the number of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan has now risen to 93. Canada launched its Afghan mission in February 2002, and about 2,500 Canadian soldiers are now serving in the war-torn country, most of them in the volatile south.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/21/cdn-soldiers.html

[sourmilk]

1. RIP.

I hate this frigging useless war, almost as much as I hate my friggin' useless government.

Forward they cried/
From the Rear/
And the front rank died...

--Pink Floyd - "Us and Them"

[Fluffdaddy]

2. My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends

[applegrove]

3. Very sad. Vibes to the families.