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Does this picture show British soldiers broke Geneva Conventions?
Basra :: Iraq | about 10 hours ago
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Lawyers for the men say the photograph, held by the Army since May 2004 but only disclosed this year, supports evidence of the routine abuse of Iraqi prisoners. The covering of a prisoner's face and rear handcuffing on the ground is a breach of Common...
Tags: British Army, degrading treatment, British Field Army, Human Rights, Iraqi, Iraq, Basra, Criminal law, Morality, Torture, Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, Human rights abuses, Violence, Crimes against humanity, War Conflict
Buried in Greensburg, Arthur St. Clair a forgotten Revolutionary
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Dennis Roddy/Post-Gazette Beer cans litter the grave of Revolutionary War hero Arthur St...Clair Park in Greensburg. Bankrupted by the country he helped create and forgotten by a history he set on its course, Arthur St.
Tags: Arthur St. Clair, St. Clairsville, St. Clair Park, Western Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County Historical Society, Confederation Congress, George Washington, Greensburg, Hannastown, British Army, Seattle, Greensburg Pennsylvania, Saint Clair, Hanna's town resolves, Lower St. Clair Township, St. Clair's Defeat, Politics, Westmoreland County Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh metropolitan area
How Blair's lie led to 'failed' British mission in Iraq
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Frank classified interviews with British Army commanders reveal that Blair misled MPs and the public throughout 2002. The need to conceal Britain's real objective in Iraq from Parliament resulted in a 'rushed' operation 'lacking in coherence and resources'...
Tags: Iraq, iraq war, Tony Blair, British Army, significant risk, classified interviews, United Kingdom, London, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, invasion of Iraq, Politics, War Conflict, Trimdon, February, Occupation of Iraq, Iraq conflict, Sedgefield, Downing Street memo, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, the United States, Modern history, Gulf War, John Chilcot, Islamism, Saudi Arabia, Islam in the United States
Tories vow to pull troops out of Germany
Herford :: Germany | 3 days ago
Credibility The move would be part of a "wholesale recasting of our foreign and defense policy," Fox pointed out. But a final decision depends on whether the Ministry of Defense can handle the return of so many soldiers. Although the British presence has been scaled...
Tags: Germany, Herford, NATO, Conservative Party, War in Afghanistan, Conservatism in the United States, Georgian era, Jacobitism, Liam Fox, Politics, War Conflict, British Armed Forces, British Army, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, Anti-communism, Cold War, Richard Dannatt, Armoured warfare, 1st Armoured Division
As deaths in Afghanistan rise, so does the growth of opium
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility Attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan are at record levels and threaten to derail efforts to rebuild the war-torn country, while an unholy alliance of Taliban drug dealers and corrupt government officials has made a mockery of coalition forces' attempts...
Tags: Afghanistan, Below McCain, exit dates, John McCain, U.S, Kabul, International Security Assistance Force, Opium production in Afghanistan, Mohammed Daud Daud, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, Opium, War Conflict, Politics, Military helicopters, Ministry of Defence, Royal Air Force, Afghan presidential election, Shia Family Law, Pashtun people, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, Stanley A. McChrystal, Iraq War troop surge, NATO, International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, British Army, Disaster Accident, Raymond John Lahey, Diocese of Antigonish, Social Issues
191: Winston Churchill
London :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility New National Recording Registry entries announced Best Known As: Political Figure Gist: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 ? January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United...
Tags: Winston Churchill Stories, world war, prime minister, British Army, London, Winston Churchill, Gallipoli Campaign, Royal Scots Fusiliers, The Second World War, Winston Churchill in politics: 1900-1939, Old Harrovians, Knights of the Garter, Edwardian era, Politics, War Conflict, Human Interest
Manoeuvre into a military job
Westbury :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility It's cold and muddy as we try to tie together two slippery planks and bridge a make-believe river. Lt-Col Mark Pomroy says that if we think this is tough, there is worse to come in the afternoon. "We've had people burst into tears, faint and even wet...
Tags: British Army, Sandhurst, Westbury, Military ranks, Officer, Lieutenant colonel
History Teaches Us Many Lessons
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility When I wrote the article ‘United we stand divided we fall’ I could see trouble brewing ahead with an effort by vested interests to divide the nationalistic forces. It is now fast reaching the boiling point with the resignation of General Sarath Fonseka...
Tags: Mahasena, Kandyan, general sarath, Sarath Fonseka, Sinhala Army, Mahanasena, Mahanayake Theras, British Army, vested interests, best friend, United Kingdom, London, Kandy, Sri Lanka, Radala, Kandian Wars, Kingdom of Kandy, Kandyan Convention
Volunteer shot in Helmand
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 days ago
Credibility A young soldier who volunteered to serve in Afghanistan to gain experience for a future career as an officer was killed within days of arriving in Helmand. Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 23, was shot whilst on foot patrol near Sangin on Sunday. A fortnight...
Tags: Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Kabul, Coalition casualties in Helmand and Kandahar, Gereshk, Sangin, British Army, War Conflict, Bomb disposal, Land warfare, Mine action, Sandford, War in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Operation Herrick
Shot UK soldier was TA volunteer
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 7 days ago
Credibility Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 23, of 7th Battalion The Rifles, died on Sunday. The soldier, from Cambridgeshire, had spent two years in East Midlands University's Officer Training Corps before joining the Territorial Army. He chose to serve with 3 Rifles...
Tags: Task Force Helmand, Afghanistan, Helmand Province, Territorial Army, Cambridgeshire, Ministry of Defence, Kabul, British Army, British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since, War in Afghanistan, Rifleman, Helmet, Forward operating base, Armour, War Conflict, Personal armour, Coalition casualties in Helmand and Kandahar, The Rifles
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