AAP General News (Australia)
02-20-2011
FED:Gillard committed to Afghanistan
CANBERRA, Feb 20 AAP - Australia remains committed to the war in Afghanistan, despite
the rising death toll, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.
The number of Australian diggers killed in the conflict has risen to 23 following the
death of Sapper Jamie Ronald Larcombe.
An Afghanistan interpreter also was killed by insurgent gunfire in an area to the
south-east of patrol base Wali.
The 21-year-old South Australian comes from the same regiment as Corporal Richard Edward
Atkinson, who was killed by a roadside …
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