, Brigadier Ed Butler, Commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade and recently returned from combat operations in Afghanistan, has responded forcefully to inaccurate reporting of his views in a national UK newspaper.
In a letter to a national newspaper, Brigadier Butler said:
“Your front page story paints a misleading and mischievous picture of what I said at a media briefing on Tuesday. It omits some of my comments, and extrapolates meaning and intention from others which is completely false.
“I did not say the operation in Iraq had cost
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