Soldier killed after Army bosses barred him from opening fire on Taliban insurgents

Daily Mail ^ | 9th July 2011

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A widow revealed how her soldier husband was blown up in Afghanistan days after senior officers had apparently ‘laughed off’ his complaints that insurgents were being allowed to plant explosive devices unchallenged.

Sergeant Peter Rayner, 34, phoned his wife in a ‘highly stressed’ state four days before his death and was upset that his fears were not taken seriously.

She said he and his men had watched the enemy, using night-vision goggles, plant improvised explosive devices and were not allowed to attack them. He was allegedly told by one officer: ‘I am an Army Captain and you will do your job.’

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Sergeant Rayner’s widow Wendy told an inquest in Bradford that the Army had promised that her concerns would be dealt with, but she said: ‘I have been fobbed off.’

Mrs Rayner told Bradford Coroner's Court her husband, who joined the Army at 17, had feared his own death. She said: ‘He was concerned about the number of explosive devices being planted in the area they were patrolling and had told higher ranks because he feared one of them would be killed.

‘He said they could see people planting these devices but could do nothing about it.

Sergeant Rayner told his wife that officers told him that he and his men could not open fire on insurgents planting bombs or make contact with them. His complaints were rejected by a Sergeant Major and a Captain, the inquest heard.

‘I think that if more notice had been taken of him, then he might not have died,’ she said. ‘Peter loved his men and would have done anything to stop them being killed.’

[gaijin]

The REAL story is this:

TO GET THE TRUTH IN THE USA, YOU MUST READ A ***BRITISH*** NEWSPAPER.

Your Legacy Media has BETRAYED you, and the chilling fact is that ***YOU*** are the new media.

Got that?

The truth during the Bubba years is that the really hard-hitting stories were only reported by Brit papers, and now also that is true.

For new Freepers: the Monica mess was in Drudge’s hands and we were yelling for over 6 months here about the finest details and the ENTIRE legacy media knew ALLLLLL about it and said NOTHING.

And that’s happening now also.

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