Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, 39, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards is the highest ranking Brit army officer to be killed since the Falklands War.

He is the most senior Brit to be killed in Afghanistan since operations began in October 2001. Only six Brit Commanding Officers have died on operations in command of their units since 1948.

Ironically he was killed by a roadside bomb and one of the other six Brit commanders to be killed was killed at Narrow Water; where the IRA used a roadside bomb and a secondary booby trap. In that instance the dead Brit commander was Lt. Colonel David Blair.

Thorneloe was killed with another Brit in Helmand and this is an example of the price they pay to secure the opium crop.

Moron why don't you stick your head in the oven.? I applaud this man for being on the side of freedom against the Taliban as would any normal person.

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My sympathies to both his family and the family of the other soldier killed by the roadside bomb.

Agreed. My sympathies to the familes of both men.

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+1,rip.

Define a 'normal person'. Are you normal?

I am normal enough not to be sneering at some guy who has been killed in battle against the Taliban.

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I won't hold my breath waiting for the "normal people" to cry over the wedding parties and villages that have been bombed flat.

These forces are not wanted by the people of Afghanistan and if they don't want to get blown up should get out of there.

Any of you want to explain how the opium crop that the UN said was down close to zero around 2000 has expanded exponentially since the US/UK occupation started ?