The report, ordered by Defence Minister Mr Alan Shatter and carried out by Frank Callanan SC, has found the landmine which killed Corporal Fintan Heneghan, Private Mannix Armstrong and Private Thomas Walsh should have been detected before it detonated.
By C.J.McGinley
THE Letterkenny-based brother of one of three Irish soldiers killed in controversial circumstances in the Lebanon twenty two years ago has welcomed an independent report stating their deaths ‘could and should have been avoided’.
Soldiers deaths in Lebanon 'could and should have been avoided'
Posted: 10:21 am September 21, 2011
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