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Press Association
Saturday July 8, 2006 7:23 AM

The funeral of a British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan is
taking place in his home city.

The service in memory of Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi, one of two
soldiers killed last Saturday, is due to be held at a mosque in the
Small Heath area of Birmingham.

L/Cpl Hashmi, a member of the Intelligence Corps serving with the 3
Para Battle Group, was killed in Sangin, Helmand Province, in an attack
which claimed the life of Corporal Peter Thorpe.

Both men's bodies were flown back to Britain on Friday and relatives of
L/Cpl Hashmi, 24, and Cpl Thorpe, 27, were at RAF Brize Norton for the
repatriation ceremony.

Pakistan-born L/Cpl Hashmi was the first British Muslim to be killed in
the "war on terror" and was described by his uncle as a "hero of
Islam".

A total of six British soldiers have died in the turbulent Helmand
province in recent weeks.

The latest was 19-year-old paratrooper Private Damien Jackson, from
South Shields, whose unit was ambushed during a foot patrol in Sangin
on Wednesday.

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religiösa som politiska eller andra finns en stor majoritet av vanliga
hederliga människor som ställer upp för sitt land.

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