BLACK WATCH VICTIM NO4; Two others injured in roadside bomb horror.Byline: DON MACKAY Donald Mackay, (born March 19 1940 in Perth), is a Scottish former football player and manager. As player He was a goalkeeper and played for Forfar Athletic, Dundee United, and Southend United during his playing career. A FOURTH Black Watch soldier was killed by a roadside bomb attack in Iraq yesterday. Two more were injured in the blast, which came as US troops launched an all-out offensive on the rebel city of Fallujah. The trio were ambushed north of the regiment's Camp Dogwood Camp Dogwood is the name of the base camp for the British Black Watch regiment in Iraq, 2004. South of Baghdad. External links
Military chiefs said the dead soldier was a Fijian recruit. Three other troops stationed at the camp died in a suicide car bomb attack last week. Former Black Watch officer Robb Scott, 61 - whose teenage grandson is serving in Iraq - last night called "for the gloves to come off" in the struggle to halt the rebels. |
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