News Search Search this site or the web powered by FreeFind Site search Web search Story archive		26-01-2005 Scotsman 'I felt the heat and the blast - there was smoke everywhere' By Gethin Chamberlain in Basra A SURVIVOR of a suicide bomb attack on British troops has spoken publicly for the first time about the moment the bomber struck. Lieutenant Huw Longmore, 27, told how the bombers, who had travelled from Fallujah, planned to video the attack on a British checkpoint and how his squadron of light tanks headed them off, only for the bomber to detonate his device next to their vehicles. He described how his driver, Trooper Lee Williams, was saved from taking the full force by luck, ducking down to pick up his rifle just as the bomb went off. "His back was covered in flecks of suicide bomber," he said. "I felt the heat and the blast and there was black smoke everywhere." Lt Longmore, from Cardiff, was a member of the 100-strong force of Queen's Dragoon Guards sent to Camp Dogwood near Baghdad. The incident happened on 17 November. Lt Longmore said he would like to know more about what had driven the bomber to carry out the attack. "He was just a normal guy, about 20 to 30," he said.
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