Mum of killed soldier 'disgusted' at Trump

The mother of a soldier shot dead in Afghanistan says she is disgusted at Donald Trump after he suggested British soldiers stayed "a little off the front lines" during the conflict.

The US president's comments, made to Fox News, have sparked outrage in the UK from politicians and the veterans' community.

Angie Moore's son, Pte Gregg Stone, 20, of The Yorkshire Regiment, was killed in Helmand province during a mission to rescue an Afghan police officer kidnapped by the Taliban in June 2012.

Refusing to use Trump's name, she said: "He has returned me to the moment I got a knock on my front door from the Army telling me my son was dead."

The UK and other allies joined the US in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

A total of 457 British service personnel were killed in the resulting conflict - including Pte Stone, a father-to-be, from Atwick, near Hornsea, in East Yorkshire.

Trump told Fox News on Thursday that he was "not sure" Nato would be there for the US "if we ever needed them".

He added: "We've never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them.

"They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan. And they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines."

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Pte Stone was living in a remote checkpoint in Nahr-e-Saraj, with his platoon fighting a constant battle with the Taliban when he was killed.

His comrades tried to save his life by carrying him to safety while under gunfire, with one soldier carrying him across a river, an inquest into his death heard.

Angie said: "When I read his comments, I expect I felt the same as the other 400-plus families of the men and women who lost their lives in Afghanistan."

Asked if she had a direct message for Trump, she replied: "It would not be printable."

Now living in North Yorkshire, she added: "Trump is disrespectful, inconsiderate and unfeeling. He does not give a damn.

"It's the suits who start the wars - and it's the young men and women who go out and fight."

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