Joshua Bowman Videos : Day for answers for families of three servicemen killed by rogue Afghan soldier 26.07.11

british forces news first battalion the royal gurkha rifles major james joshua bowman lieutenant neal turkington corporal arjun purja pun helmand province talib hussein afghan soldier day for answers families of three servicemen killed by rogue 26 07 11

Day for answers for families of three servicemen killed by rogue Afghan soldier 26.07.11

The inquest into the killing of three British troops, by an Afghan soldier, has heard there was low-level friction between the two armies. But the commanding officer of First Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles said it was not the kind of thing he thought would generate a rogue attack. Major James Joshua Bowman, Lieutenant Neal Turkington and Corporal Arjun Purja Pun, all of 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, were killed on a base in Helmand Province on July 12, last year. After the killings, a man called Talib Hussein contacted the BBC bureau in Kabul to claim responsibility saying he had been angered by British conduct. He insisted he had not spoken to the Taliban before the killings. Hussein, 23, shot Maj Bowman, 34, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, dead in his sleeping quarters in Patrol Base 3 in Nahr-e Saraj district, near Helmand's capital, Lashkar Gah. He also fired a rocket-propelled grenade into the base's command centre, killing Lt Turkington, 26, from Craigavon, Northern Ireland, and Cpl Pun, 33, from Nepal and wounding four other UK soldiers. Maj Bowman was the most senior member of British forces to die in Afghanistan since Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was killed by a roadside bomb. Hussein was in the army for about eight or nine months, spending most of his time in Helmand, and was thought to have a hashish habit, the Afghan authorities said. Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Strickland -- the CO of 1RGR ...

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