Army
UK To Send 1,000 Bomb Detectors To Iraq
Britain is sending 30 more Army trainers to Northern Iraq, along with 1,000 bomb detectors.
The specialists, drawn from across the Army, will be based in the Kurdish capital Erbil from the end of next month.
They’ll train Kurdish Peshmergas to use Vallon metal detectors, which were central to counter-IED efforts in Afghanistan.
Britain will also take the lead in planning and co-ordination of counter-IED training for the Iraqi army, which will be delivered by other members of the anti-Islamic State coalition.
It comes less than 24 hours after The Archbishop of Erbil made a plea to the House of Lords for more British troops to be sent.
But he's told Forces TV that the move is not enough.
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