Lieutenant Colonel Cowan the commanding officer of Britain's Black Watch speaks at the battalion's temporary base at Camp Dogwood in Iraq. Lieutenant Colonel James Cowan, the commanding officer of Britain's Black Watch speaks at the battalion's temporary base at Camp Dogwood, 20 miles south west of Baghdad, November 5, 2004, after three soldiers were killed in a suicide attack. In just their second day of full deployment, a suicide car bomber killed the three Black Watch regiment troops on Thursday, bringing Britain's death toll in Iraq to 73. It was the first time UK troops have been killed by a suicide bomber. REUTERS/Maurice McDonald/Pool