From: "John Beamish" 

If by "they" you mean Canadian PBI, then the answer is no.  It
was always put to the Canadian populace that this was combat and some would
not be coming home.  The first four died on a training ground the US had
set up when they were bombed by a US pilot.  You may remember some of the
discussions here about that incident.

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:00:06 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:

> John Beamish wrote:
>> Terms of engagement for some of the NATO troops specifically exclude
>> combat missions.  There have been 45 Canadian troops killed in
>> Afghanistan since they were deployed.
>>
>
> I wonder if they'd been told "combat operations have ceased this is more
> a meet & greet".
>
> Adam
>
>> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:47:53 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>>  wrote:
>>
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Arti
cle_Type1&c=Article&cid65359015189&call_pageid–8332188774&col–8350116467
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>>>
>>> Canada is on the way out of Afghanistan - or at least out of the battle
>>> zones in that country's south.

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