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Canadian front-line soldier mistakenly killed by U.S. fighter jet.
By Donald McArthur, CanWest News Service; Windsor Star
Published: Tuesday, September 05, 2006


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was killed and dozens wounded, five seriously, when two U.S. fighter jets called in for close air support mistakenly strafed them with cannon fire Monday morning near the front lines of a battle where four Canadian soldiers died and several were wounded the day before.

Pte. Mark Anthony Graham, a member of 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, based at CFB Petawawa, Ont., died in a friendly fire incident involving an American A-10 Warthog aircraft. Read More...

How many more Canadian Army should die before Canadian government stop supporting a battle that is not for the sake of our great Canadian country? Four Canadian soldiers conducting a training exercise were killed in Afghanistan on April 18, 2002, by a 225-kilogram bomb dropped by an American F-16 fighter jet. Now another Canadian soldier died because of ridiculous US "friendly fire" fighter jet again. The number our soldiers die in the real battle is 19, and 5 soldiers died because of "friendly fire" in Afganistan since 2002. (Source:CTV.ca) That is 26.3% died because of our "alliance", US. That does not count how many problems this issue to our society.
Such as this recent incident: a masked man attack on Montreal Jewish school. Why the government does not pull all our troops from Afghanistan and let them help our police clean up gang fights and crime in our big cities such as: Toronto that crime rate and gun fight have arisen lately? The answer is politics (I guessed)? These are a subject that so hard for someone like me to understand.