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Daily Mail: First British woman soldier to kill an enemy fighter

Is being "the first female soldier to kill in combat" really something to be proud of?

The Mail on Sunday, 4 December 2011

Bad Company: A Woman Face To Face With The Taliban
by Chantelle Taylor, Plymouth: DRA Publishing, 2011
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UK tabloid: First British woman soldier to kill an enemy fighter

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compiled by Cem Ertür

10 December 2011

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069988/First-female-soldier-kill-combat-Chantelle-Taylor-says-me.html

It was him or me, says the first female soldier to kill in combat who shot Taliban SEVEN times

by Katherine Faulkner, Mail on Sunday, 4 December 2011

A female [British] Army medic has told of the dramatic moment she gunned down a Taliban fighter after being caught in an ambush, saying: ‘It was him or me.’ [...]

Officially, female soldiers in the Army are not allowed to fight on the front line in battle. But Miss [Chantelle] Taylor is one of many women who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq as medics, drivers and artillery support troops. [...]

Describing her first and only ‘kill’ in a book about her experiences in Afghanistan, Miss Taylor said the attack happened as a patrol was ambushed by 20 heavily-armed insurgents in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, Helmand, in July 2008. [...]

The dramatic account appears in Miss Taylor’s book Bad Company: A Woman Face To Face With The Taliban, which is being serialised in the Mail on Sunday.

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http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=159370&highlight=&sid=ebcffb33750da4236942f6e1583316b5#159370

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“End of a tyrant”: The Independent and The Guardian jubilant over the assassination of Libya’s deposed President Gaddafi

by Cem Ertür, 911Blogger, 21 October 2011

http://911blogger.com/news/2011-10-21/end-tyrant-independent-and-guardian-jubilant-over-assassination-libya-s-deposed-president-gaddafi

British tabloid: Shocking revelation on the 10th anniversary of the war on Afghanistan

compiled by Cem Ertür, San Fransisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 8 October 2011

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/08/18692791.php

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Makes me proud

11.12.2011 14:47

Good to see that Britain can still produce young people like this. People who understand that freedom has a price. I am glad that we are fighting the Taleban on the streets of Afghanistan and not on the streets of the UK.

Greg