Posted by Paco on October 30, 2001 at 18:04:49:
..."The bad news from the Afghan front is that Britain has suffered its first casualties. Three British citizens
reportedly died last week during a raid on Kabul.
The good news is that these were enemy casualties. Two British Muslims from Luton and one from Crawley
went to Afghanistan to fight on the Taliban side. "We have learned from our contacts that they were
martyred by the American bombing on Wednesday," the delightfully named Hasan Butt, spokesman for a
group called al-Muhajiroun, tells the BBC."