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TROOPS WHO WON'T FIGHT SENT HOME
Mar 30 2003
By Vincent Moss
A PAIR of British soldiers in the Gulf face up to two years' jail after
refusing to fight.
The duo - believed to be a private and an air technician - told officers
they would not take part in a war in which innocent civilians were killed.
The two men from 16 Air Assault Brigade - heavily involved in the battles
in the south of Iraq - are believed to have been sent back to their
barracks in Colchester, Essex.
A third serviceman faces court martial after refusing to travel to the Gulf.
Others are believed to have refused on religious grounds.
-A 10,000-strong march by a coalition of Muslim groups in Newham, East
London, was the largest of scores of anti-war demos staged across Britain
yesterday
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things
they misname empire; and where they make
a wilderness, they call it peace." -- Tacitus
Gabriel Gudding
Department of English
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790
office 309.438.5284
http://www.pitt.edu/~press/2002/gudding.html
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