Ex-Marine shot in Iraq

[Geezah]

A FORMER Royal Marine has been shot dead in Iraq while working as a private contractor, it was disclosed today.

Brian Tilley, 47, was killed on Friday after a gunman reportedly walked into the house where he was staying and opened fire.

According to The Times, he had been due home on Wednesday but missed his flight and was waiting for another.

Mr Tilley is said to have left the Royal Marines Special Boat Squadron around two years ago and had been based in Baghdad for 14 months.

He set up his own company called Peak after leaving the Royal Marines and was believed to have been working with an Egyptian company on a communications project.

He is believed to have served in the first Gulf War in 1991.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that a British national has been killed."


Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004230520,00.html)

[Seraphim]

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[MKtexan]

RIP

[FuturePara]

Whew...for a minute I was worried this might have had something to do with TP.
RIP

[Geezah]

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15159

whoops :oops:

[Geezah]

Update,

ENGLAND captain David Beckham’s former bodyguard has been shot dead in Iraq.

Ex-Royal Marine Brian Tilley, 47, was hired by the Real Madrid star after he and wife Victoria were the target of a kidnap plot in 2002.

Brian, who remained friends with the Beckhams, was gunned down by rebels near Baghdad, where he was believed to have worked for an Egyptian firm on a communications project.

Brian, who had a long-term girlfriend Elaine Readenall, had been due to fly home last week after five months in the city.

But he missed his flight and was waiting for another when he was killed at a house in the al-Dawrah district.

Last night saddened pal Pete Oxley described Brian as a “real-life action man”.

He said: “Despite his adventurous lifestyle he was always very safe — his military training taught him to calculate every risk and err on the side of survival.”

Brian, an adopted son of parents who are now dead, was brought up in Derby and also served with the Special Boat Service.

He saw action in Northern Ireland, the Falklands and The Gulf and was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for bravery in 1997.

Brian — a qualified paramedic, mountaineer and diver — advised the Beckhams’ civilian bodyguards on how to improve their close protection tactics.


Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004231042,00.html)

RIP :(