Continued from [url=http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/afghanistan-stil..., Still Losing the War, Part 10.[/url]
[url= Three Canadian soldiers were killed in an explosion this morning on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road west of Kandahar city. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081213.wafghanistan... and Mail[/url]Their convoy had been summoned to investigate part of Highway #1 because of suspicions that a bomb had been planted under the road, a common hazard on the main route out of the city.
[b]Little more than a week earlier, another blast[/b] in roughly the same part of Highway #1, near a suburb known as Senjaray, [b]killed three other soldiers[/b]: Warrant Officer Robert John Wilson, Corporal Mark Robert McLaren, and Private Demetrios Diplaros.