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The Times - Tour de Force The public should salute Prince Harry’s deployment in Afghanistan

The decision to revisit such a delicate issue and to deploy to Afghanistan in secret was also right - and imaginative and bold. It reflects well on the Army for taking a clear-eyed view of Prince Harry’s usefulness not just [...]

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That didn’t take long

Times Online - Prince Harry aborts Afghan mission after web leak

Emergency plans to extract Prince Harry from Afghanistan were being drawn up tonight after the news leaked that he had been on a secret combat tour in Helmand province since before Christmas. After being denied the chance [...]

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Times Online - Breaking - Prince Harry serving on ’secret’ mission in Afghanistan

Prince Harry, third in line to the throne, has been on a tour of duty with the British Army in Afghanistan since before Christmas, it emerged today. The Prince has been on active duty in the country since [...]

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The Telegraph - John McCain, Obama and America’s problem

‘Certainly America does need to restore its authority in the world.” If a politician had said this five years ago, we would have assumed that he was anti-American, or at least strongly hostile to the Republican Party. But the comment comes from William Hague, the [...]

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The Tank (NRO) - Does Congress Realize We’re at War? by Joel Arends

At midnight tonight America will become much more susceptible to a terrorist act. It will happen because the Democrat-controlled Congress failed to reauthorize the Protect America Act. This legislation gives our military, intelligence, and law-enforcement communities the tools they need to [...]

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LGF - Mughniyeh: Killed in a Work Accident?

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Wait for the slow-mo replay and you can see the dude react to the sound of the first missile and start running like hell before the second one.

So, Navy readers, walk us through this. Is there no little alarm thingie announcing that it’s a bad idea to go for a stroll ’round the back of [...]

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Times Online - Returning UK troops honoured in homecoming parade

More than 300 troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan marched through the streets of Winchester to the sound of drums, cheers and heartfelt applause today in an emotional homecoming parade, one of the first such events since the start of the 2003 war. [...]

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Sunday Mail - Princess Mary takes up royal duty in Denmark’s Home Guard

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NY Sun - Menace to the Times, by Mark Steyn

My columnar confrere Clifford May connected it to a notorious anniversary: Seventy-five years ago, in February 1933, the Oxford Union passed a famous resolution, by an overwhelming margin, that “this House would under no circumstances fight for its King and country.” The Union was [...]

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BBC - France’s oldest WW1 veteran dies

Mr de Cazenave’s death means the last French WWI veteran is now Lazare Ponticelli, also aged 110.

Btw, there’s a Wiki page listing the surviving veterans, by country, of WWI. I love Wiki. Including deaths of WWI veterans by year: 1999 (488) • 2000 (324) • 2001 (255) [...]

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Scissors beat paper.

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The Telegraph - General Petraeus: man with a message of hope

Nonetheless, why should we choose to nominate Petraeus There has, after all, been no shortage of other candidates this year. President Nicolas Sarkozy has impressed many with his determination to reform France, while George Osborne reinvigorated politics in this country [...]

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In honour of the Oscars biting it because of the writer’s strike, I’ve arranged a series of Bob Hope quotes to keep you entertained while I’m in Canada for the next week or so. Those of you still slogging, or not baking cookies, feel free to discuss freely the events of the day in the [...]

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Curtsy: Brett McS.

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