Muzzle Flashes

The new Ambassador to NZ and Australia from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Nasir Ahmad has just written of his first visit here in the last few days:

Arriving at Auckland for my first visit as Afghanistan's new Ambassador to New Zealand, I immediately noticed the half-mast flag flying over a building at the airport.
===The half-mast flag was to honour the services of three brave soldiers, Lance-Corporal Jacinda Baker, Private Richard Harris and Corporal Luke Tamatea, who had been killed by a Taleban roadside bomb in the northeast part of Bamiyan province in Afghanistan.
===These brave soldiers - two young men and a young woman - and seven other service personnel killed since 2001, left . . . More . . .