Not sure if this news has played much at all down south... but on the weekend a sucide attack on a convoy resulted in the first Canadian diplomat to be slain abroad.
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Medic emerges as heroic figure in Afghan convoy tragedy
Last Updated Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:59:11 EST
As Paul Franklin and two badly wounded comrades are undergoing medical treatment in Germany, the Canadian medic is emerging as the hero of a car-bomb attack on a Canadian convoy in Afghanistan.
Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry was killed in the suicide attack on Sunday.
Cpl. Jeffrey Bailey and Pte. William Salikin are in critical condition in "medically induced unconsciousness," while Franklin, who lost part of a leg, is in serious condition, a Canadian officer said in Kandahar.
They were airlifted to Germany on Monday and were being treated at a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl.
"They're all in fine care at this point," Lt.-Col. Steve Borland, deputy commander of the Kandahar force, told CBC News on Monday.
Franklin's wife, who spoke to him by telephone, says he saved his own life by applying a tourniquet to his severed left leg.
The CBC's David Common says Franklin's bravery is believed to have gone even further than that.
Military sources say he crawled to his wounded comrades and gave them first-aid that may have saved their lives, Common reports.
>> more at: http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/nation...5.html?ref=rss
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Last bit I had to highlight, simply because... wow - the guy had his left leg blown off by flying car/diplomat parts, his right leg shattered - and yet he treated and saved himself, then worked his way through the wreckage to render first aid as well... I'm sorry but that is impressively hardcore.
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