'Nervous and angry', the Black Watch arrive in the Triangle of Death
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Your support makes all the difference.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."
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