General defends Black Watch move
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The British commander who moved Black Watch troops from their Basra base to Camp Dogwood defends his decision.
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Britain&#39;s Defense Secretary Geoffrey Hoon leaves No. 10 Downing Street, London Thursday Oct. 21, 2004 after attending a cabinet meeting where they discussed the deployment of 650 soldiers of the Black Watch to a US-controlled sector in Iraq.
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People should be able to use whatever force is necessary to defend their homes, Britain's most senior police officer said in an interview.
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Labour&#39;s former Defence Secretary Lord Healey has opposed the deployment of British troops around Baghdad. He told Sky&#39;s Sunday with Adam Boulton that British forces should leave Iraq as quickly as possible.
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The general in charge of detention operations in Iraq defended his recommendation last fall that military police at the prison here work closely with military intelligence, saying that procedure is still being followed and is not resulting in abuse of prisoners.
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The Black Watch is being deployed as part of a US Marine expeditionary unit to take &quot;decisive action&quot; against insurgents in Iraq, Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Michael Walker has revealed.
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The first units of a Black Watch battlegroup are due to arrive today in their new positions south of Baghdad as Tony Blair indicated that more British troops may replace them in the American-controlled zone before the end of the year.
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The UK's most senior general hits back at claims that injured soldiers get poor hospital care.
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&#39;Just say no.&#39; That was the Guardian&#39;s considered advice to the UK government over the redeployment of British Black Watch troops from Basra to central Iraq to take the place of Americans who have to go off and fight insurgents.
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Britain's military chain of command in Iraq comes under scrutiny as lawyers question an officer whose orders may have led three soldiers to believe they could mistreat civilians.
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The nightmarish beginning to a controversial redeployment has rekindled criticism of Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s decision to shift the 850-strong Black Watch Regiment from the relative calm of Basra to Iraq&#39;s deadliest area.
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A senior British diplomat defends Nato's operation in Afghanistan, saying the overall strategy is working.
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Black Watch troops have move into position ahead of the imminent US and Iraqi assault on the rebel stronghold of Fallujah, it was reported today.
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The former head of Britain's armed forces has warned against planned cuts in the standing army, saying they would leave it 'dangerously small and over-committed,' in comments published on Sunday.
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The commander of a British regiment that lost three soldiers in a suicide attack near Baghdad had expressed security concerns before his unit was redeployed to aid U.S. forces, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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The death of three Black Watch soldiers in Iraq will have caused &quot;shock and grief across Scotland,&quot; according to the Scottish National Party leader.
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Soldiers from the Black Watch battle group have been attacked at their base south of Baghdad for the third consecutive day. Six mortars were fired at the base, 25 km south of Baghdad, on Monday morning.