British TV to air footage of Afghanistan friendly-fire incident that killed three

British TV to air footage of Afghanistan friendly-fire incident that killed three
By Bryan Mitchell, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, January 27, 2008

RAF MILDENHALL, England — A popular British television show is set to air video footage captured by a soldier of the friendly-fire blast involving a U.S. fighter jet that killed three English soldiers last summer.

The television show, “Ross Kemp in Afghanistan,” airs the next four Mondays at 9 p.m. on Sky One across the United Kingdom. The friendly-fire footage will run Feb. 11.

“The film was captured by one of the soldiers and was passed on to Sky, and it will be aired on television,” said British Ministry of Defence spokesman Charlie Morton. “It is being done with the full consent of the MoD and the families.”

The uncle of Pvt. Aaron McClure, one the soldiers killed, said the family wanted Britain to witness the troops’ actions.

“It was never going to be easy to sit and watch your nephew get killed. We felt the effect of that, the shock waves, coming through the telly,” Allan McClure said.


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