'Nervous and angry', the Black Watch arrive in the Triangle of Death
Soldiers of the Black Watch regiment expressed their anger yesterday at being airlifted from the Basra area to a dangerous mission in Iraq's so-called "triangle of death''.
Soldiers of the Black Watch regiment expressed their anger yesterday at being airlifted from the Basra area to a dangerous mission in Iraq's so-called "triangle of death''.
Some of the first 75 troops to be airlifted to the area to guard a route into Fallujah said they had been expecting to go home when they were redeployed. Instead of a homecoming, they have been warned to expect suicide bombers and other attacks. "I'm nervous and angry," said Pte Manny Lynch, 19, from Fife, as he was about to board a Hercules C-130 transport aircraft. "I was supposed to be going home last Monday and I only found out that I was being deployed four days before ... Finding out just days before I was due to go home is hard to take."
Ben Brereton, 19, from Truro, Cornwall, a craftsman with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, said: "I don't know how they justify it."
Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this article
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today.
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies