**11,000 UK soldiers have gone AWOL **
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
LAHORE: More than 11,000 British soldiers have gone absent without leave (AWOL) since the start of the Iraq war in 2003, according to a report published by The Daily Telegraph on Monday. Although most of the missing soldiers have been caught or have returned of their own free will, nearly 1,000 currently remain on the run according to figures from the British ministry of defence, the report said.
According to the report, the number of soldiers who remain AWOL from this year is 283, in addition to 279 from last year, 157 from the year before and 135 from 2004. Since 2000, the total number of troops who remain AWOL stands at 947.
The British military is now carrying out a study looking into why soldiers are going AWOL, said the report. The Defence Ministry claims the desertion rates have more to do with domestic problems than the war itself. daily times monitor
ELEVEN THOUSAND!!!
Suicide Warriors - what psychological warfare of our time.
British soldiers are more coward than the Hindustani soldiers (atleast Hindustani soldiers commit suicide).