[size=10pt][size=10pt]Lt.-col hit in rocket attack[/size][/size]
Marty Klinkenberg
Telegraph-Journal
Published Friday April 6th, 2007
Appeared on page A1
Lt.-Col. Rob Walker, the commanding officer of the CFB Gagetown battle group now serving in Afghanistan, escaped serious injury late Thursday night when a rocket fired by the Taliban struck the vehicle in which he was riding.
A native of Saskatchewan, Walker was riding in a seven-vehicle convoy from the Kandahar Air Field to Patrol Operating Base Wilson when the incident occurred. The base is west of Kandahar City in the Zhari Region, an area where confrontations continue between NATO-directed troops and the Taliban, the fundamentalist group deposed by the U.S. military and Afghan opposition forces in late 2001.
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=123367
Marty Klinkenberg
Telegraph-Journal
Published Friday April 6th, 2007
Appeared on page A1
Lt.-Col. Rob Walker, the commanding officer of the CFB Gagetown battle group now serving in Afghanistan, escaped serious injury late Thursday night when a rocket fired by the Taliban struck the vehicle in which he was riding.
A native of Saskatchewan, Walker was riding in a seven-vehicle convoy from the Kandahar Air Field to Patrol Operating Base Wilson when the incident occurred. The base is west of Kandahar City in the Zhari Region, an area where confrontations continue between NATO-directed troops and the Taliban, the fundamentalist group deposed by the U.S. military and Afghan opposition forces in late 2001.
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=123367