Ex-BNP Man's 'Civil War Fear'
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A FORMER British National Party election candid
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Former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes' recollections over how he helped President Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War have evolved over the years from fuzzy to distinct, with him now expressing remorse for what he did.
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A best-selling author who is the worldâs leading spokesman for child soldiers strongly defended himself against an Australian newspaperâs accusation that he had distorted the account of his service in Sierra Leoneâs civil war during the 1990s. In a statement released on Tuesday, the author, Ishmael Beah, above, said: âI am right about my story. This is not something one gets wrong.â His publisher, Sarah Crichton Books, a Farrar, Straus & Giroux imprint, also defended the accuracy of his book, âA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.â The Weekend Australian reported that his ordeal had lasted one year, not the three that he had stated. Mr. Beah, now 27, said the newspaper may not have understood that rebels first attacked his village in 1993, two years before they closed a village mine.
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They made clear, however, that they had serious reservations about his stewardship of that war.
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British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin was arrested on suspicion of incitement to commit racial hatred.
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An ex-Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross tells of his joy at being given UK citizenship rights.
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Former US army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who deserted to North Korea (news - web sites) four decades ago, said he decided to turn himself in to the US military and risk jail for the sake of his North Korean-born daughters, whom he feared might be
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Business & money: Britain faces falling house prices and rising inflation within a few years, according to former chairman of US Federal Reserve.
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A former soldier says the government breached his human rights after he underwent nerve gas tests in the 1960s.
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In a video posted on the Internet, Ben Barnes, a former Democratic speaker of the Texas House, said he is ashamed he helped President Bush and the sons of other wealthy families get into the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 so they could avoid serving in Vietnam.
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday at a business conference here that the war in Iraq "could be considered a civil war," the conference organizer said.
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Jonathan Charles returns to Beslan to find out how people are coming to terms with the school siege which left more than 300 people.
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Britain had never before seen a public outcry like the one on February 15 2003. So why, asks John Harris, haven't we seen one again since?
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Former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes said he is "more ashamed at myself than I've ever been" because he helped President Bush and the sons of other wealthy families get into the Texas National Guard so they could avoid serving in Vietnam.
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Afghans feeling almost as vulnerable as they did during 1990s civil war amid increased violence.
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Former home secretary Jack Straw has defended Britain's release of ex Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on health grounds in 2000, but admitted being annoyed at his recovery on returning home.
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LONDON: The leader of the rightwing British National Party (BNP), Nick Griffin, was arrested Tuesday after he made anti-Islam comments in a television documentary.