Britain: growing opposition to occupation of Iraq as more Black Watch troops die

Britain: growing opposition to occupation of Iraq as more Black Watch troops dieOn November 11, representatives of Military Families Against the War (MFAW), which comprises relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq as well as some of the families of those currently stationed there, held a protest at Downing Street, the London residence of Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Five members of Scotland’s 850-strong Black Watch regiment have now been killed and several others seriously wounded since their move north on October 27 from southern Iraq to Camp Dogwood, 20 miles (32 km) south west of Baghdad.

The protest was joined by Dante Zappala, a member of the US organisation, Military Families Speak Out. Zappala’s brother, 30-year-old Sergeant Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad while serving with the US army for the Iraq Survey Group.