International: British Soldier 'Alive' After Ambush in Iraq

Birmingham Post › September 30, 2006

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One of two soldiers killed by insurgents in Iraq three years ago was still alive nearly four hours after his convoy was ambushed, an inquest heard yesterday.

Forensic experts have examined footage shot by the soldier's attackers then passed to al-Jazeera TV and believe that Sapper Luke Allsopp, aged 24, was still breathing as he lay surrounded by a crowd in the town of Al Zubayr, outside Basra in Iraq's south on March 23 2003.

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International: British Soldier 'Alive' After Ambush in Iraq

Following the death, there was outcry when Prime Minister Tony Blair said the soldiers had been executed. The family of Sapper Allsopp said they had been told the men di...

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