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Canwest News Service January 16, 2010 Canadian soldier killed on foot patrol in Afghanistan Matthew Fisher KANDAHAR AIRFIELD: "A career soldier" and "family man" from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has become the first Canadian killed in action in Afghanistan in 2010. Sgt. John Wayne Faught, from the Edmonton-based 1 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, stepped on a homemade landmine early Saturday afternoon while leading his section on a joint foot patrol with Afghan army troops, about 15 kilometres southwest of Kandahar City. .... He was the 139th Canadian soldier and the 38th Patricia to die in Afghanistan since the Chretien government first sent troops to the country soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States. The Patricia's have spent more time in Afghanistan than the other two regular-force infantry formations, the Ontario-based Royal Canadian Regiment and the Quebec-based Royal 22nd Regiment. The RCR and the Vandoos have suffered 28 and 15 deaths in Afghanistan, respectively. The number of NATO troops who died in Afghanistan leapt from 295 in 2008 to 530 last year, largely owing to the Taliban having laid more so-called improvised explosive devices, which have often been packed with much bigger and more powerful explosives. That ominous trend looks set to continue. Only 16 days into the new year, the number of NATO fatalities is already 27 and all of them have died in IED strikes. .... Thirty-two Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan last year - the same number as in 2008. The worst year for Canadian fatalities was 2006, when 36 soldiers were killed. As well, diplomat Glyn Berry was killed in 2006 and journalist Michelle Lang of the Calgary Herald died on Dec. 30, 2009. Both Berry and Lang were with Canadian troops at the time. In the first years of the conflict, many Canadian casualties were the result of firefights with the Taliban. But since 2008, more than 80 per cent of Canadian deaths have been caused by IEDs. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [email protected] For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
