Two Canadian soldiers killed
Corporal Christian Bobbitt, 23 and another soldier – who cannot be identified yet because his family has asked for more time to notify relatives – were on a refueling mission in the Senjaray district in Zhari, west of Kandahar City, when their vehicle was hit by an IED explosion at around 3:20 p.m. Kandahar time, according to the Canadian Forces.***********
RELATED: Fallen, but not forgotten...
Bone fragments and skeletal remains were recovered in the desert last week by U.S. Marines stationed in Iraq's Anbar province, thanks to a tip from an Iraqi citizen, the department said. It said they were identified as Speicher's by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.**********
Speicher's F/A-18 Hornet fighter was shot down over west-central Iraq on January 17, 1991, the first night of the first Gulf War, which eventually drove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
UPDATE: Second Canadian identified...
Sapper Matthieu Allard, 21, was killed after his convoy was hit with two improvised explosive devices in rapid succession while on a refuelling mission in Zhari district, about 15 kilometres west of Kandahar City.*
2 comments:
Re: Captain Speicher -
It was reported (by the CBC and FOX News) that when a group of Bedouin came across Capt. Speicher's remains a day later, they buried him in the desert - even though he was a kafir. Apparently the Bedouin's hatred of Saddam was greater then their wariness of Christians.
I have no idea whether he was buried facing Mecca, or towards al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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i think this was a simple case of, infidel or no, respect for the dead.
you know... unlike somalia and other lesser tourist destinations... where the naked mutilated bodies of the vanquished get dragged through the streets to enthusiastic jeering from the local populace.
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