Two British soldiers 'caught' by camera giving Nazi-style salutes

The photograph of two British soldiers giving a Nazi-type salute while standing in front of the Union Flag and the flag of Northern Ireland  has sent ripples around the UK.

Apparently taken at an Army base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, the photograph will provoke international disgust as Remembrance Day approaches. 

John Mann, chairman of the Commons’ All Party Group Against Anti-Semitism said: ‘This is an insult to the memory of those who gave their lives to stop the Nazis.

Belfast-born Iraq War commander Colonel Tim Collins, who led the 1st Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment, said: ‘These soldiers are behaving inappropriately in uniform but I wouldn't get too worried about soldiers behaving playfully. 

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British soldiers' suicide rate 'overtakes Afghan deaths'

In a recent revelation, it has been learnt that more British soldiers and veterans have died because of committing suicides than those who died in combat in Afghanistan.

BBC Panorama reports that 21 serving soldiers killed themselves last year (2012), along with 29 veterans, while 44 soldiers died in Afghanistan, of which 40 died in action.

Some of the soldiers' families say the men did not get enough support.

In one suicide incident, one soldier named L/Sgt Collins put on his Army uniform, and drove into the Preseli mountains in Pembrokeshire, where he recorded a farewell video on his phone and then hanged himself. He was 29. 

L/Sgt Collins had twice survived being shot and was blown off his feet by a roadside bomb - his friend, L/Cpl Dane Elson, was blown to pieces just yards away from him.

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British soldiers jailed for 50 years after smuggling drugs and guns into the UK

A gang of elite British Army soldiers, from the Queen's Royal Hussars, the most senior light cavalry regiment, and the Royal Logistics Corps, who smuggled drugs and guns into the UK have been jailed for a combined total of almost 50 years Friday.

The jailed soldiers: Lamer [left], Dyce [top], Laurent [centre], Wright [bottom]

Trooper Lemar Loveless, 26, masterminded the operation to bring a cache of guns, ammunition and £70,000 worth of cocaine through the Channel Tunnel loaded into the back of BMWs.

The pair had five guns, including two Walther PPKs favoured by fictional spy James Bond, along with three silencers, ammunition, and half a kilo of cocaine.

Lemar Loveless had discharged himself from the Queen's Royal Hussars, just days before his arrest.

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Group of 180 Iraqis to accuse the UK of torture and sexual abuse over five years

A group of 180 Iraqis will accuse Britain next week for breaching international law by torturing and killing prisoners during the occupation of Iraq over five years.

Lawyers representing the group - who claim they are victims of abuse or their family members were unlawfully killed - will accuse the UK of a 'systemic' policy of abuse committed between 2003 and 2008.

Lawyers acting for the group will place a file of statements before two judges which details alleged use of 'stress positions' and  hooding as well as beating, sexual abuse and religious abuse of illegally detained prisoners.

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Some of the claims made in the statements are incredibly shocking with sexual depravity and insults to Islam featuring strongly.

In one case, a soldier is alleged to have masturbated over a prisoner while another is alleged to have committed sodomy with his finger. The High Court will also be told how female interrogators stripped and feigned seduction in exchange for information from prisoners.

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The betrayal futility of British soldiers' deaths in Helmand - Afghanistan

As British  involvement in Helmand heads towards its seventh year and the number of British troop fatalities in Afghanistan nears 420 with little sign of respite, an award-winning book on the war deliberately pulls no punches in its depiction of the conflict’s gruesome realities.

Written by Daily Mail journalist Toby Harnden, it follows the Welsh Guards in gripping everyday detail through a six-month tour of duty in Helmand in 2009.

Sixteen from the Welsh Guards Battle Group would die, including the charismatic and hugely popular commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe. Dozens more would be seriously wounded and many left with mental scars that may never heal.

Within days of going out on the ground, they had lost their first man. Dubai-born Lance Sergeant Tobie Fasfous was returning from a patrol when someone stepped on the pressure pad of an IED (improvised explosive device). The bottom half of his body was devastated while the Afghan interpreter beside him was decapitated.

Read more gory details: Daily Mail

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