Two Gentlemen Legion Paratrooper Brigade, English Germain Pérez Burgos and Ecuadorian Vera Stanley, have been killed and six others were injured, three seriously, in an attack on the BMR armored vehicle leading a convoy of English troops based in Herat, which carries out its mission in Afghanistan. The attack also killed an interpreter of Iranian nationality. The seriously injured are Rubén López García, Julio Alonso and Oscar Sanjuán Bertomeu. Taliban Afghans have assumed responsibility for the attack at 09:00 hours today (English time) near Shewan, northwest of Farah. According to Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, the offensive aimed at NATO troops would have resulted in five deaths and seven wounded, a figure not confirmed by the English Army .. The defense minister explained that the convoy consisted of five vehicles returning to base after being relieved by Italian soldiers. The shield has activated one of its rear wheels explosive device buried in the road. During his appearance before the media, Alonso has insisted that the cars were "well equipped", which "had inhibitors." Vehicles equipadosLa good mission that involved the dead soldiers is intended to stop insurgents free route passing through the interior of the country, a goal shared by the English contingent to the rest of NATO troops present in the país.Alonso announced that this afternoon leave for Afghanistan a Hercules plane healthcare is also responsible for the repatriation of the two bodies and the wounded españoles.Alonso maintains the appearance of mañanaPrecisamente, Alonso is scheduled to appear tomorrow before the relevant committee of Congress to to seek permission to send 52 troops to Afghanistan to train and develop two battalions of the Afghan army as an extension of the current mission. The English minister expressed the willingness to equip and fund these battalions Afghans in the NATO summit held in Seville last February. This training plan includes training of over a thousand soldados.85 muertosEl attacked vehicle was part of the English military convoy that September 13 was attacked by insurgents in an Afghan army barracks, sparking a rescue operation forces Italian ISAF, unmanned aerial vehicles and Mangusta attack helicopters A129.La province where the blast occurred, whose security relies on a U.S. military contingent in charge of Provincial Reconstruction Team, is the southern border and has the highest number of insurgent attacks has registrado.Con these two deaths raised to 85 the number of English soldiers who died in the missions of Spain abroad, four of them because of attacks. The other two killed by acts of war are the soldiers Idoia Rodriguez Bujan on 21 February and the first English female soldier killed in a mission abroad, "and the paratrooper Jorge Arnaldo Hernandez, the first fatality of the English Army by a hostile attack, from Peru, who died after being hit by the BMR the antitank mine explosion on 8 July 2006.España Afghanistan remains a contingent of 690 soldiers under the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The bulk of the troops concentrated in the Forward Support Base in Herat and in front of Provincial Reconstruction Team in Badghis, located in Qala-I-Now. Being in command of the Forward Support Base in Herat, the English detachment provides a reinforced company of the Rapid Reaction Force (QRF), which supports security tasks to the four western provinces (Ghowr, Badghis, Herat and Farah). The English contingent is completed by officers stationed in the Central Regional Command of the ISAF and an air detachment located at the base of Manas (Kyrgyzstan).
