ETS AND REVENGE NG FIELDS OF IRAQ
You see a lot of limbless people in Iraq, mostly o with violence over the last 30 years.
A young shepherd was killed close to where we working in Ramadi earlier this year, and five dren playing with a mortar bomb in Fallujah e killed close to one of our sites last year.”
The UK Government is a key donor to the UN ne Action Service’s demining efforts in Iraq, ing provided £15.7million since 2018. ritish aid is supporting all three of HALO’s mining projects in Iraq’s Anbar province. ad-of-three Frank served 30 years in the army h regiments including the Gordon Highlanders. was awarded an MBE in 2004 for planning and implementing the military response in Scotland to the firefighters’ strike in 2002.
He’s been based in Baghdad as HALO’s programme manager since 2017.
Over the past year his HALO team has cleared 750,000 square metres using armoured machines, destroying IEDs and unexploded grenades, mortar bombs and artillery shells.
He said: “I think one of the most spectacular things that happened this year was on July 4.
“Our vi l la is right in the centre of Baghdad, and I was sitting at my desk and there was this sound like a jet going overhead and then it just stopped.
“The Americans were test firing the new
C-RAM system – a counter rocket, artillery and mortar defence designed to shoot down any incoming missiles.
“I’m sure there was no accident about the date and it made for some 4th of July fireworks display all afternoon.
“Maybe it was just as well because actually that night there was a rocket attack on the Green Zone and the C-RAM system was effective and brought the rockets down.”
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