Looks like we have hit the first proverbial rut in the road with the execution of a shopkeeper when the rickshaw he was travelling in refused to stop at a checkpoint.

His family claimed that there was no warning but I have little doubt that our boys are telling the truth. Rickshaws are notoriously hard to flag down in Kandahar and I expect he told the driver to continue thinking that if they stopped he would be hauled out by another prospective fare

No of much greater concern is that apparantly he was hit by one of five shots fired from a distance of one metre! All the others missed the deceased and other occupants of the vehicle

Back to the firing range squaddies. I expect a better performance next time