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BLACK Watch troops were sent into battle in Iraq without the equipment they would have needed to survive had Saddam Hussein decided to use chemical or biological weapons against them. Jan 22, 2004 |
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HE was lying about 6ft down, at the foot of a narrow shaft known to the soldiers as a spider hole. He looked confused, but put up no resistance. He made no attempt to use the pistol he was carrying, or either of the two AK47 rifles they recovered from the hole. Haggard and dishevelled, his hair was long and he wore a bushy white beard. He seemed disorientated as he climbed out of the hole, the soldiers said, and he spoke very little. It was 8: 30pm and the hunt for Saddam was over. December 15, 2003 |
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THE true scale of British casualties in Iraq is revealed today after the Ministry of Defence confirmed that more than 2,200 injured British military personnel have been flown home from the Gulf since the start of the campaign. With the security situation in Iraq deteriorating, The Scotsman has learned that British forces are suffering about 50 combat injuries every month, and attacks on troops are taking place daily. Soldiers serving in Iraq say they have been told they cannot all expect to return home alive. April 24, 2004 |
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THE first Scottish soldier to die in Iraq was killed after his aging vehicle broke down just days into the campaign, The Scotsman can disclose. Lance Corporal Barry Stephen was killed in an ambush as he and his colleagues attempted to rejoin the Black Watch mortar platoon in a heavily defended compound after going for repairs on their broken-down FV432 armoured personnel carrier. March 6, 2004 |
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THE Black Watch have been told to prepare for a return to Iraq - less than a year after they came home victorious from the war against Saddam Hussein's regime. Sources within the regiment said yesterday they were told a couple of days ago that they should expect to return to Iraq at short notice. May 7, 2004 |
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The war is far from over, claims British officer ONE of the most senior British officers in Iraq has admitted that war is far from over - and blamed Iranian interference for creating problems for coalition forces in the south of the country. July 10, 2003 |
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Uday and Qusay die in gun battle following tip-off THE tip-off on Monday evening seemed as promising as anything the US troops had received so far. A group of Saddam Hussein loyalists were hiding out in a villa belonging to a cousin of the deposed dictator in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul. If the informant was right, the group included Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay. July 23, 2003 |
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'We will miss them all as brothers in arms' SHE stood there, sobbing uncontrollably, the ten red roses she had brought with her to the gates of the Black Watch barracks lying at her feet, a 12-year-old girl who had lost her father in a far away war, consumed with grief. "To Dad," the card on the flowers said. "Love you and miss you, love Kirstin." Kirstin Gray's father, Sergeant Stuart Gray, was dead, and she was inconsolable. She tried to read the other tributes that were already starting to arrive, but it was too much for her. Friends put their arms around her, and led her gently back to the car in which she had arrived. November 6, 2004 |
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I refuse to answer to you - I am still Iraq's president "YOU know me. You are an Iraqi and you know who I am." Even after nearly two years in captivity, there was no mistaking the identity of the man standing in the white cage in the specially constructed courtroom in the heart of Baghdad's green zone. 20-10-2005 Scotsman |
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FIRST there were weapons of mass destruction that could be launched within 45 minutes, posing a threat to mainland Europe. But they became battlefield WMDs which could threaten only troops attacking Iraq. In time, they metamorphosed into programmes for the production of weapons that could or could not be used against coalition forces at some unspecified point in the future. And now it seems they may never have existed at all. January 31, 2004 |
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Copyright ©2005 Gethin Chamberlain. All rights reserved. |
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