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Two Canadians hurt during outpost attack in Afghanistan
Tom Blackwell, Canwest News Service, 28 Sept 08
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Two Canadian soldiers were hurt, one of them seriously, when Taliban insurgents attacked an outpost west of Kandahar City on Saturday with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
One of the soldiers has been released from hospital, and the other is in stable condition but will be transferred to a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.
"I just came from speaking with him. The soldier is in very good spirits," said Colonel Jamie Cade, deputy commander of Canada's mission in Kandahar. "He's going to be OK."
Both men had called their next of kin on their own.
The incident happened in the restive Panjwai district, about 30 kilometres west of the city, in a combat outpost - one of the smallest of the fortified bases Canada maintains in the Kandahar countryside.
The insurgents attacked first with small-arms fire, then with rocket-propelled grenades.
The two soldiers were injured when struck by shrapnel from the grenades, said Cade.
It comes just weeks after three Canadians were killed in an ambush by Taliban that seemed to mark a more aggressive stance by the rebels, who have inflicted most of their damage on NATO troops over the last year with roadside bombs.
But Cade said assaults on Canadian outposts such as the one Saturday are nothing unusual.
"It's pretty much a standard tactic we've been encountering. It's not something we would consider worrisome," he said.
"Our troops responded with the usual high standards of professionalism and the attack was quickly repulsed."
Two Canadians hurt during outpost attack in Afghanistan
Tom Blackwell, Canwest News Service, 28 Sept 08
Article link
Two Canadian soldiers were hurt, one of them seriously, when Taliban insurgents attacked an outpost west of Kandahar City on Saturday with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
One of the soldiers has been released from hospital, and the other is in stable condition but will be transferred to a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.
"I just came from speaking with him. The soldier is in very good spirits," said Colonel Jamie Cade, deputy commander of Canada's mission in Kandahar. "He's going to be OK."
Both men had called their next of kin on their own.
The incident happened in the restive Panjwai district, about 30 kilometres west of the city, in a combat outpost - one of the smallest of the fortified bases Canada maintains in the Kandahar countryside.
The insurgents attacked first with small-arms fire, then with rocket-propelled grenades.
The two soldiers were injured when struck by shrapnel from the grenades, said Cade.
It comes just weeks after three Canadians were killed in an ambush by Taliban that seemed to mark a more aggressive stance by the rebels, who have inflicted most of their damage on NATO troops over the last year with roadside bombs.
But Cade said assaults on Canadian outposts such as the one Saturday are nothing unusual.
"It's pretty much a standard tactic we've been encountering. It's not something we would consider worrisome," he said.
"Our troops responded with the usual high standards of professionalism and the attack was quickly repulsed."
