An investigation has been launched into the shooting of a suspected suicide bomber by British soldiers in Iraq, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. The man was shot by Black Watch soldiers as he drove towards a checkpoint near their base at Camp Dogwood Nov. 7, an MoD spokesman told reporters in London. The vehicle had pulled out of traffic and accelerated towards the checkpoint, he said. The soldiers fired warning shots but the car continued, and only stopped with the death of the driver. | BANG! "I said Stop, dammit!" |
The spokesman reported there were people in the area wearing black clothing similar to that of insurgents. "It was a tense situation," he said. A military spokesman in Iraq told journalists the soldiers were aware of a suicide attack moments earlier in which the legs of two British soldiers were blown off.
The MoD said there was no evidence of improper conduct by the soldiers and an investigation into procedures was standard. | After action reports are standard procedure, sounds like a good shooting. |
|