British troops "were supplied with blank ammunition"
UK: British troops "were supplied with blank ammunition"
03/20/05
British troops in Iraq have been supplied with blank rounds instead of live ammunition, one of a catalogue of failures during the occupation that have put their lives at risk, according to a hard-hitting report to be published this week. Inability to provide body armour and medical supplies in sufficient quantities are also understood to be among logistical shortcomings identified by the influential Commons Defence Select Committee. News of its findings came as tens of thousands of protesters marched through central London yesterday on the second anniversary of the invasion, calling for the Government to withdraw British troops from Iraq...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=621880
from Independent [UK]
posted by Mary Lou Seymour on 20 Mar '05 16:35
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
03/20/05
British troops in Iraq have been supplied with blank rounds instead of live ammunition, one of a catalogue of failures during the occupation that have put their lives at risk, according to a hard-hitting report to be published this week. Inability to provide body armour and medical supplies in sufficient quantities are also understood to be among logistical shortcomings identified by the influential Commons Defence Select Committee. News of its findings came as tens of thousands of protesters marched through central London yesterday on the second anniversary of the invasion, calling for the Government to withdraw British troops from Iraq...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=621880
from Independent [UK]
posted by Mary Lou Seymour on 20 Mar '05 16:35
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 21. Mrz, 15:35
