Showing posts with label soldier chased Taliban enemy over Afghanistan minefield. Show all posts
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Saturday, 12 February 2011
soldier chased Taliban enemy over Afghanistan minefield
Wirral soldier chased Taliban 
enemy over Afghanistan minefield - Liverpool News - News - Liverpool Daily Post: "soldier ran across an unchecked minefield to catch a Taliban insurgent who was caught red-handed laying improvised explosive devices, the Ministry of Defence said.Irish Guardsman Lewis Wilby, from Neston, was weighed down by more than 60lbs of kit when he spotted the insurgent laying improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the village of Rahim Kalay, in the Upper Gereshk Valley, Afghanistan.
The bomber immediately fled and 26-year-old Guardsman Wilby sprinted after him across uncleared ground where IEDs were known to have been laid.
He found him hiding in a village compound nearby.
Insurgents had been under surveillance for 48 hours, and were watched overnight as they laid IEDs in one of the most northerly and isolated places in the British area of operations, in Helmand.
The Taliban sympathiser, who could have caused the deaths of many soldiers or Afghan civilians, is now facing life in prison following the incident last month."
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