DON'T DESERT AFGHANS, FOR DARREN'S SAKE; Ex-wife: Allow troops to finish the job.Byline: EUAN STRETCH THE GRIEVING grieving Mourning, see there former wife of war hero Darren Chant yesterday urged the Government not to pull our troops out of Afghanistan. Connie Chant, 41, said that despite the mounting death toll - which now includes her former husband, the father of her three children - she wanted the fight against the Taliban to continue. She spoke out as his family prepared to travel to RAF Lyneham RAF Lyneham (IATA: LYE, ICAO: EGDL) is a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It is the home of all the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force. The station is also home to No.38 Expeditionary Air Wing. in Wiltshire today to greet his body and those of four comrades gunned down by a rogue Afghan policeman last Tuesday. Mrs Chant, of Horndean, Hants, said: "I don't believe we should pull out, despite Darren's death. I don't want him or any others to have died in vain vain adj. vain·er, vain·est 1. Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless: a vain attempt. 2. Lacking substance or worth: vain talk. 3. . They should be allowed to finish the job." Regimental Sergeant-Major Chant, 40, had just been commissioned to Captain when he was killed. His children with Connie are Connor, 16, Adam, 10, and Victoria, eight. Second wife Nausheen, 30, is expecting a son. Meanwhile, Gordon Brown made a grovelling grov·el intr.v. grov·eled also grov·elled, grov·el·ing also grov·el·ling, grov·els also grov·els 1. To behave in a servile or demeaning manner; cringe. 2. apology for the errorriddled letter he sent the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. The PM blamed his handwriting and said he was "mortified mor·ti·fy v. mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing, mor·ti·fies v.tr. 1. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate. 2. " when told of Jacqui Janes' distress at the note about son Jamie, 20. NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. and Afghan forces yesterday claimed they had killed 133 Taliban fighters and eight senior leaders in Kunduz, north-east Afghanistan, in one of the coalition's biggest results yet. CAPTION(S): HERO Darren Chant |
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