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Author: By Jan Colley, Press Association

Graham Hopps, 45, blamed his former employer, Mott Macdonald Ltd, and the
Ministry of Defence (MoD) for not supplying armoured vehicles to transport
men working on contracts in Iraq.

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Author: By Kim Sengupta, Defence Correspondent

They died trying to save their comrades in an ambush which claimed the lives of two other members of their platoon and severely injured five others.

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Why have losses mounted so sharply?

Partly because we and the 4,000 US marines recently sent to Helmand Province are actively seeking out the enemy, in an offensive aimed not only at allowing next month’s elections to take place, but at pushing the Taliban permanently out of the densely populated strip along the Helmand river. New rules curbing air strikes, in an effort to reduce loss of support caused by civilian casualties, may also put ground forces at greater risk. But the vast majority of British deaths and injuries are caused not by fighting but by “improvised explosive devices” planted under dirt roads, or in walls and ditches. Last month there were a record 736 IED “incidents”.

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Author: By Kim Sengupta and Terri Judd

Susan Smith, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, was given permission to seek a High
Court judicial review relating to past use of the vehicles in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Her 21-year-old son Phillip Hewett, a private in the 1st
Battalion Staffordshire Regiment, died on July 16 2005, in the Al Amarah
region of Iraq in a roadside bomb attack on a patrol of three armoured
Snatch Land Rovers. Two other soldiers also died in the incident.

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