Our famous luck has run out. Latvian soldiers have successfully dodged a long, long series of IED attacks.
At 1255 on 27 December 2006 an armoured HMWVV of the Latvian infantry company in Iraq has been struck by an IED while returning from a patrol at Al Husa (?) near Diwaniyah. 2 soldiers - Lcpl Vitālijs Vasiļjevs un Lcpl Gints Bleija have been killed, and three more soldiers wounded. Two are lightly wounded, the third more seriously and now in hospital in Baghdad awaiting evac home. The guys were "short" - the patrol was a hand over tour for the new rotatio
The mission to Iraq is to continue through 2007. Some lesser politicians have began to talk about fleeing, but the leadership has already stated it will not affect the mission.
(compiled from the MoD homepage, LNT news, DELFI portal)
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Please accept my sincere condolences on the loss of these fine soldiers.
I've linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2007/01/re-latvian-infantry-kia-in-iraq.html
Bad luck fellow. My sincere condolences to you and your fellows.
Good blog you have here. I didn't realize that Latvia has soldiers in Iraq. God bless Latvia and her people.
Keep on blogging, keep updated. More people will eventually stop in!
..of course, my sincere condolensces to the losses of your brave troops.
In the blog below you stated you were going into the armed forces? I wish you well. Keep us all posted.
Thankyou for the support gentlemen. They were good lads and will be missed.
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