Two soldiers killed in two days by ‘friendly fire’ in Afghanistan

Because of advances in night-vision equipment of the British army, friendly fire incidents involving British soldiers have been relatively rare in Afghanistan. However, in the last 48 hours there had been two friendly fire incidents, which killed two British soldiers. When officers of the Royal Military Police were investigating the first friendly fire incident, they heard of the second friendly fire incident. The deaths of these two soldiers took the fatal casualty toll since 2001 to 242.

I am sure that the American, Dutch, British and all the other soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing a really good job. They are helping to rebuild these countries and they save the lives of thousands of people. Every killed soldier is one too many, but how does a family feel when they hear that their son, friend, brother or cousin is killed by friendly fire? It must be horrible. That's why I wanted to pay some attention to this item, because we may not forget the soldiers and the casualties.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6965411.ece