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THE family of Margaret Hassan were mourning her death last night after the news that the aid worker had been shot dead by her terrorist captors. November 17, 2004 |
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Troops sent to Iraq minus a third of essential gear THE government sent troops to war in Iraq without a third of the equipment it had identified as urgently required for operations, a critical parliamentary report has concluded. The report described the failure as "highly regrettable". In one instance, it revealed that before the Iraq war in 2003, the MoD had sold a number of all-terrain vehicles for GBP 3,000 each, having deemed them surplus to requirements, then spent GBP 17,000 apiece buying them back to be used by 16 Air Assault Brigade. Another GBP 18,000 went on making them comply with health and safety regulations, including fitting seatbelts, by which time the war was over and they were sold again for GBP 6,500 - a net loss of GBP 25,500 per vehicle. 29-06-2005 The Scotsman |
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DEATH AT THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA HE LAY stretched out on the ground, half on and half off the pavement by the side of the road, dying in the bright light of the first morning of the new Iraq, his shirt open, his friends by his side trying in vain to save him, their despair etched on their faces. Gordon Gentle had been travelling through Basra with a patrol from the Royal Highland Fusiliers when the bomb exploded. Their armoured Land Rover stood in the road, curiously unscathed; only the slight frosting of the bullet-proof glass in the windscreen from the force of the blast, and the number plate hanging down, now held only by a single screw, gave any indication of what had happened. June 29, 2004, Scotsman |
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Arab world is split over the trial of Saddam THE trial of Saddam Hussein has polarised opinion not only in Iraq, but across the Arab world. Many Iraqis watched with relief yesterday as the former dictator appeared in a Baghdad courtroom to face the first of a series of trials relating to his brutal three-decade rule. But others angrily dismissed the trial as a kangaroo court, declaring they did not recognise the US-backed case against a man who still proudly styles himself "the president of Iraq". 20-10-2005 Scotsman |
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THE picnic had been underway for about 30 minutes when the men from Muqtadr al Sadr's office appeared in the park near to the university in Basra. It was 15 March. The students, from a mixture of religions and sects, had brought along radios to play music and men and women were dancing. Some of the women were wearing jeans. They knew that they were being provocative, but they had sought and been granted the appropriate permissions for the picnic, and they were determined to make their point. 14-05-2005 The Scotsman |
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BLACK WATCH: THE BETRAYAL OF A REGIMENT THE Black Watch yesterday began the move north towards Baghdad that will take them into one of the most dangerous areas of Iraq, uncertain of whether those who make it home will still have a regiment to call their own. For the soldiers who have been asked to take on the insurgents in the notorious Sunni Triangle, the only certainty is that they face a torrid couple of months. After that, thanks to the government's plans to cut the size of the army and create one Scottish super regiment, their future is up in the air. October 26, 2004, Tuesday |
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Analysis Lawless outpost of Iraq that even Saddam Hussein couldn't control THOUGH it features rarely in reports about Iraq, the town of al Amarah is by far the most difficult place to keep order in the British sector. Located on the Tigris river and close to the Iranian border, Amarah and its surrounding area has long been regarded as a lawless tract in which bandits and smugglers have thrived, and security forces have struggled. Even Saddam Hussein despaired of controlling the place and his regime left the town largely to its own devices. 30-05-2005 The Scotsman |
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Gun battle sees Iraq near civil war THE conflict in Iraq took another significant step in the direction of civil war yesterday when rival Sunni and Shiite militias fought a gun battle outside Baghdad in which 15 people were killed. The fighting broke out after Sunni insurgents kidnapped a member of militant Shiite cleric Muqtadr al Sadr's Mahdi Army. 28-10-2005 Scotsman |
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A thousand pilgrims crushed and drowned in 'bomb' panic THE death toll in the worst single loss of life since the start of the Iraq war was last night heading towards 1,000 after a crowd of about one million Shiite pilgrims making their way across a bridge in Baghdad panicked at reports of a suicide bomber in their midst and stampeded. 1-9-2005 Scotsman |
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25,000 Iraqis dead, claims survey ABOUT 25,000 people have been killed and 42,000 injured in Iraq by coalition forces, insurgents and criminal gangs since the start of the war in March 2003, according to an independent study published yesterday. The figure is dramatically lower than the hotly contested previous estimate published in the Lancet medical journal last year, which asserted that as many as 100,000 had died. The new figure, which covers civilians, police and army recruits, is also consistent with the Iraqi health ministry figures for the last year. 20-07-2005 The Scotsman |
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Copyright ©2005 Gethin Chamberlain. All rights reserved. |
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