Brown pays tribute to marines killed by child suicide bomber

The Times ^ | December 13, 2008 | Kevin Dowling

[Mercia]

Gordon Brown paid tribute to four Royal Marines killed in Afghanistan on a visit to their comrades on the frontline today.

The Prime Minister’s surprise visit came the day after the soldiers died in the southern province of Helmand with three killed by a 13-year-old suicide bomber and the fourth in an unrelated attack.

He praised the soldier’s work in fighting a “chain of terror” stretching from the mountains of Afghanistan to the streets of Britain after flying into the frontline town of Musa Qala, which was recaptured from the Taliban last year.

Mr Brown again expressed his sympathy to the family and friends of those killed by the child bomber...

The deaths of the four soldiers yesterday bring the total killed to date in Afghanistan to 132.

[Mercia]

Also from The Times, NATO will open new supply routes into Afghanistan in the next couple of months.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5333435.ece

[tanuki]

And. of course, the fact that these murders were accomplished by the death of a child gets slight notice (roll eyes). This is ridiculous-when are we going to call out these monsters for what they are? By sitting out the real moral drama going on, our media is as complicit in these acts as the terrorists.

[autumnraine]

this reminds me of the stories my stepfather mentioned of seeing two and three year old running crying to soldiers due to cold and hunger and their instinct to pick them up to help.

They were under strict to NOT TOUCH THEM EVER because the Vietnamese would cut the space between the clavicle and plant a handgrenade to blow up the soldier when the child ws hugged.

He said turning away from the crying, dirty infant was more tramautic that watching friends die in front of him.

[ViLaLuz]

That is so sad.