Two NI-based soldiers die in Iraq

BBC News:

Two soldiers based in Northern Ireland have been killed by a roadside bomb as they travelled in southern Iraq.

The dead men were from the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers which is based in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, the Ministry of Defence said.

They were in a convoy travelling about five miles east of the Shaibah airbase, in Basra, when the explosion happened.

Probably one of the few goods things to come out of the Iraq war is the deaths of these two British soliders. Now neither of them will ever be able to oppress indigenous Irish people again.