{"id":1415,"date":"2004-11-04T20:57:57","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T03:57:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-04T20:57:57","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T03:57:57","slug":"3-black-watch-troops-killed-8-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/04\/3-black-watch-troops-killed-8-wounded\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Black Watch troops killed; 8 wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Scottish Black Watch soldiers and a translator have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=6719805\" target=\"_blank\">killed by a suicide bomber<\/a> at a checkpoint while 8 others were wounded in the subsequent mortar attack.  <I>&#8220;Soldiers manning a vehicle checkpoint were targeted by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in a suicide attack, followed shortly afterwards by mortar fire,&#8221; Junior Defense Minister Adam Ingram told a news conference in London.<\/I><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/blackwatch_flyer.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=350,height=384,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blackwatch_flyer\" title=\"Blackwatch_flyer\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/blackwatch_flyer.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a><BR><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"justify\">The Scotland-based unit has been trying to lower tension by playing down its Britishness, handing out flyers which read &#8220;please allow me to introduce myself &#8212; I am a Scottish soldier with the Black Watch Regiment.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe flyers have a Scottish flag, rather than a British flag.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Scottish Black Watch soldiers and a translator have been killed by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint while 8 others were wounded in the subsequent mortar attack. &#8220;Soldiers manning a vehicle checkpoint were targeted by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in a suicide attack, followed shortly afterwards by mortar fire,&#8221; Junior Defense Minister Adam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}