Mother of Dead Afghanistan Soldier Attacks Gordon Brown Over Equipment Failings (Question...)

Mrs Janes asked why it was possible to save the banks but it was not possible to provide the materiel that could save soldiers' lives.

Mr Brown sent her a hand-written note to apologise for her loss but the letter began ''Dear Mrs James'' and appeared to contain other spelling mistakes and a visible correction to her son Jamie's name.

After the letter appeared in the press, he made a 13-minute phone call to apologise about the letter of condolence and, on Tuesday, apologised again during a Prime Ministerial press conference.

Mrs Janes said he had appeared "humbled" but said, despite his loss of a child, he could not understand her grief.

She said she wished him to endure the "weeks of sleepless nights" that she had endured.

Poignantly, Mrs Janes said despite her son's horrific injuries he would never have the opportunity to endure them and live on because

Speaking in an interview with the BBC, she said: "If the Army were properly equipped, I'm not saying there wouldn't be any deaths at war, I know there would be, but my son didn't need to die that day. It's been proven by another soldier who had exactly the same injuries as James had [but survived].

"My son bled to death and I've made that clear because it's all down to money. If you can save a bank, why can't you save our soldiers' lives."

The Telegraph reported that today "dozens of fellow soldiers lined the streets of Wootton Bassett, where the coffins of the fallen men - including five killed in an attack by a rogue Afghan police officer - passed by [video]."
Yesterday, Scotland Yard foiled a WMD attack in NYC subway, planned by an al Qaeda operative, Najibullah Zazi from Denver, Colorado, an airport shuttle bus driver. This attack could have been the largest of its kind on American soil since the 9/11. The force alerted the FBI. US authorities were said"delighted with the intelligence we (the force) gave them and believed it helped prevent a catastrophic attack."

Home grown Islamic convert turned terrorist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, with red flags that should have been evident, moved unnoticed under the radar of superiors and US intelligence gathering agencies.
The London Telegraph UK was first to connect those dots to Hasan's terrorism links, with the MSM (after the bloggers) playing catch up. So in this obvious breakdown of national security at Ft. Hood and its' horrific aftermath; today President Obama and the First Lady, victim's families, friends and dignitaries went to Ft. Hood to pay tribute (video) to the 13 who died and 29 left wounded.
"This is a time of war and these americans did not die on a foreign field of battled, they were killed here on American soil..."said Obama.
Director of national intelligence Czar is retired admiral Dennis Blair who manages and coordinates "a sprawling, 16-agency bureaucracy that serves many customers with many needs".
The question posed to readers of the Telegraph yesterday[ November 9th]:
Is this 'war on terrorism' better fought at home? "
"The 'war on terrorism'," adds the Telegraph "is an unfortunate phrase that seems to imply there is a battlefield on which to fight."

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