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Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:14 PM

Sangin (Afghanistan)

Type: City

Name: Sangin (Afghanistan)

Country: Afghanistan

Latitude: 32.07

Longitude: 64.82

population: 13,579

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Inquiry into death of British solider

The father of the first British soldier killed in action in Helmand province has slammed a new Army report that ruled out equipment shortages as a factor in his death.Captain James Philippson was shot dead while taking part in a 50-man operation to rescue ... [Sky News Australia - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Verdict, Army, Andrew Walker

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Town marking 100th repatriation

Cpl Loren Marlton-Thomas was praised for his courage The bodies of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan have passed through the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett marking the 100th repatriation.The cortege conveyed army bomb disposal expert Cpl Loren Marlton-Thomas, ... [BBC - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Repatriation, Afghanistan, Army, Wootton Bassett (United Kingdom), RAF Lyneham

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 12 Documents

Volunteer soldier killed while waiting for armour

A Territorial Army volunteer who was shot and killed on Sunday had written to his friends telling them that troops were "still waiting for new body armour and helmets.Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 23, of Cambridge, became the 97th British soldier to die in ... [Times Online - 11/17/2009]

Entities: The Rifles, Osprey, Forward Operating Base

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents

Slain TA man awaited new armour

A Territorial Army volunteer killed in Afghanistan had written about his wait for newer body armour and a helmet, it has emerged.Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 23, made the comments in a blog posting to colleagues at the software company where he worked.'We ... [Defence Management - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Osprey, Sangin (Afghanistan), Liaison, Army

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 4 Documents

Gordon Brown

PM Gordon Brown to say Afghan mission is vital

GORDON Brown was today expected to issue a vigorous defence of Britain?s military mission in Afghanistan, as he repeats warnings the al Qaida terror network poses the biggest source of threat to UK national security.He will say action against al Qaida ... [Liverpool Echo - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Gordon Brown, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda

First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents

Afghanistan commander calls for staying the course

Image Credit: Gulf NewsLondon: Bringing stability to Afghanistan is worth the sacrifice, a senior UK military chief there said yesterday.Lieutenant-General Jim Dutton said the consequences of the war going wrong would be 'far greater'.He made his comments ... [Gulf News - 11/14/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, The Rifles, Army, Gordon Brown, Explosive

First Reported 11/01/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 12 Documents

2 dead, including American, in Afghanistan

KABUL The U.S. military says insurgents have killed two members of the international force in Afghanistan in bomb attacks.The military says the service members died Saturday in separate attacks while they were on patrols in the south.The U.S. on Sunday ... [Army Times - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, Sangin (Afghanistan), Military/Armed Forces

First Reported 11/08/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 11 Documents

Afghanistan troops pause to remember, then back to war

The pause to pay tribute to the fallen yesterday was all the more heartfelt for these British troops in Afghanistan.Soldiers at brief Remembrance Day services had just learned of the death in an explosion of another comrade – from 4th Battalion The Rifles ... [Mirror.co.uk - 11/09/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, The Rifles, Paul Smyth, Musa Qal, Coldstream Guards

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 10 Documents

Pressure mounting on Brown regarding Afghanistan

LONDON (SANA): Gordon Brown is braced for more pressure over the bloody conflict in Afghanistan as he stages his regular press conference.The Prime Minister is set to face questions in Downing Street after being forced to apologise to the mother of a ... [South Asian News Agency - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, Phillip Scott, Royal Military Police, Grenadier Guards

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 11 Documents

We've lost our legend: Tributes for hero bomb expert Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid killed in Afghanistan

By Chris Hughes 3/11/2009He saved countless lives as he defused 64 Afghan bombs. He died doing the job he loved.. days before he was due homeA crack bomb expert who saved scores of lives as he defused 64 Taliban devices was killed as he tried to dismantle ... [Mirror.co.uk - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, Sangin (Afghanistan), Taliban, The Royal Logistic Corps, Chris Hughes

First Reported 11/08/2009 - Updated 11/08/2009 - 9 Documents

Remembrance Sunday: Queen leads ceremony for war dead

Queen Elizabeth II led Britain's annual ceremony for the country's war dead, honouring them with a moment of silence as the military reported that more than 200 British soldiers have been killed in combat in Afghanistan.As Big Ben chimed 11am, the queen ... [3 News - 11/08/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, World War I, Sangin (Afghanistan)

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 5 Documents

Dead soldier's sister attacks PM

Father-of-one Pte Ellis was on patrol when he was killed Gordon Brown has been urged to pull UK troops out of Afghanistan, by the sister of a solider killed in Iraq.The prime minister was confronted by Karla Ellis, sister of Pte Lee Ellis, who died in ... [BBC - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, United Kingdom, Sangin (Afghanistan)

Quotes

...'We are still waiting on these new body armourarmour and helmets that were promised to us,' he wrote in the blog, entitled 'Hello From Afghan'. "You would have seen the story splashed all over the news, they said they would be ready for us but we hope they will arrive soon..." Rifleman Fentiman, of 7th Battalion The Rifles, died after coming under fire while on a foot patrol near Sangin in Helmand Province on Sunday mornin...

TA Soldier Blogged Of Lack Of Kit [Sky News - 11/17/2009]

...He told his wife: "I need you to come and get me. I've only had a couple of hours sleep in four days. I'm so weary and homesick and I just want you. I need you. It's just too much now, too much now, too long for me." Mrs Schmid, from Winchester, Hampshire, also revealed that the night before she was told she her husband had been killed she had a dream in which he...

Hero set for top honour [Telegraph - 11/15/2009]

More Content

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UK soldiers repatriated from Afghanistan [Sky News Australia - 16 hours ago]
Fallen soldiers return home from Afghanistan [Telegraph - 11/20/2009]
Town marking 100th repatriation [BBC - 11/20/2009]
Inquiry into death of British solider [Sky News Australia - 11/19/2009]
Slain TA man awaited new armour [Defence Management - 11/18/2009]
TA solider killed in Afghanistan named [London Wired - 11/18/2009]
British soldier 'underequipped' [Sky News Australia - 11/18/2009]
Afghan Death: Inquiry Points To Kit [Sky News - 11/18/2009]
Afghanistan Death: Capt 'Was Under-Equipped' [Sky News - 11/18/2009]
Soldier Blogged 'Still Waiting' For Equipment [Colorful - 11/18/2009]
Killed soldier was waiting for new armour [Times Online - 11/18/2009]
Last message of TA soldier shot in Afghanistan:... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
Dead soldier was bomb hunt expert [BBC - 11/17/2009]
Shot UK soldier was TA volunteer [BBC - 11/17/2009]
Volunteer soldier killed while waiting for armour [Times Online - 11/17/2009]
Latest Afghan casualty 'waiting' for new armour [Times Online - 11/17/2009]
TA Soldier Blogged Of Lack Of Kit [Sky News - 11/17/2009]
British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan said h... [Telegraph - 11/17/2009]
British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan said h... [Telegraph - 11/17/2009]
TA Soldier Blogged Of Lack Of Equipment [Sky News - 11/17/2009]
Latest soldier killed in Afghanistan was 'still... [Times Online - 11/17/2009]
Still waiting for armour, said soldier two week... [The Independent - 11/17/2009]
Dead British soldier was 'waiting for new body ... [Telegraph - 11/17/2009]
Rifleman Andrew Ian Fentiman of 7 RIFLES killed... [Ministry of Defence - 11/17/2009]
Latest Afghanistan casualty was TA soldier who ... [Times Online - 11/17/2009]
Fallen hero is named [The Sun - 11/17/2009]
Latest Afghanistan casualty was TA volunteer [Times Online - 11/17/2009]
Two Soldiers Die in Afghanistan [Build.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
'Selfless' Soldier Had Volunteered For Duty [Sky News - 11/17/2009]
British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan named ... [Telegraph - 11/17/2009]

Blogs

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Why we will lose [EU Referendum - 11/15/2009] In his column today, Booker picks up on the theme we have been running on Defence of the Realm looking at Afghan history in the context of the current conflict.Actually, ...
A hope in Helmand \| Theo Farrell [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/08/2009] -Local governance is reestablished, schools rebuilt: Garmsir's success shows the way forwardThe news from Afghanistan has been grim. The collapse of the second round ...
Smithsonian Air&Space on Kopp-Etchells Effect [Michael Yon - Online Magazine - 11/05/2009] November 04, 2009 Helo Halo Luminous halos twirled above a Boeing CH-47 Chinook on a recent night around 11:30 p.m. local time at Forward Operating Base Jackson ...
Godspeed British Staff Sergeant Oz Schmid [BLACKFIVE - 11/03/2009] Photo 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 ...
Afghanistan: Electrification Effort Loses Spark [Michael Yon - Online Magazine - 10/21/2009] 21 October 2009 In 2008, I was trekking in the Himalayas in Nepal preparing for a return to Afghanistan. A message came from a British officer suggesting to end ...

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