thedrifter
01-10-07, 06:48 AM
10 January 2007
ATTACKERS ARE KILLED IN BOOBY-TRAP BID BLUNDER
BUNGLING Taliban fanatics have blown themselves to pieces trying to set a booby-trap near a British base in the Afghan desert.
Little was left of the threeman terror cell after the huge blast near Camp Price. Marines from J Company, 4 2 Commando, are among 250 British troops at the base.
Commanding officer Major Ewen Murchison, from Bearsden, Glasgow, said: "It was what we would describe as an own-goal."
The Taliban were trying to lay a massive anti-tank mine, which dated back to the Russian occupation 20 years ago.
The blast could be heard over a mile away back at Camp Price. The accident has delighted the marines and their Afghan National Army allies, who could also have been victims.
Sergeant Syeed Din, from the Afghan unit attached to the Gereshk base, was among the first on the scene last week.
He said: "We collected their clothes, a turban and a Kalashnikov. Their heads were not present or their legs.
"Pieces were blown over a far distance. The mine had the power to kill for 100 yards. It was very powerful.
"It would have killed anyone in a vehicle going over it."
Ellie
ATTACKERS ARE KILLED IN BOOBY-TRAP BID BLUNDER
BUNGLING Taliban fanatics have blown themselves to pieces trying to set a booby-trap near a British base in the Afghan desert.
Little was left of the threeman terror cell after the huge blast near Camp Price. Marines from J Company, 4 2 Commando, are among 250 British troops at the base.
Commanding officer Major Ewen Murchison, from Bearsden, Glasgow, said: "It was what we would describe as an own-goal."
The Taliban were trying to lay a massive anti-tank mine, which dated back to the Russian occupation 20 years ago.
The blast could be heard over a mile away back at Camp Price. The accident has delighted the marines and their Afghan National Army allies, who could also have been victims.
Sergeant Syeed Din, from the Afghan unit attached to the Gereshk base, was among the first on the scene last week.
He said: "We collected their clothes, a turban and a Kalashnikov. Their heads were not present or their legs.
"Pieces were blown over a far distance. The mine had the power to kill for 100 yards. It was very powerful.
"It would have killed anyone in a vehicle going over it."
Ellie