British operations in Iraq will finally end today when the Royal Navy completes its mission to train the nation's sailors.
The move marks the completion of Operation Telic, the UK military campaign that began in 2003 with the invasion designed to topple Saddam Hussein.
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Posted by: American Delight ||
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Nice to know, that the efforts of our armed forces, have been appreciated.
Posted by: Dave UK ||
05/22/2011 12:37 Comments ||
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Dave, we do appreciate your armed services.
Your political "leaders," not so much. But then we think the same of our political losers "leaders." >:-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
05/22/2011 12:51 Comments ||
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Ditto on the thanks.
And when a Republican president gets elected in 2012, please consider sending Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill's bust back to the White House. We promise to take better care of it next time.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey ||
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[Dawn] A bomb went kaboom! on a shopping street in the centre of Northern Ireland's second city Londonderry on Saturday but no injuries were reported as the area was evacuated after a warning.
The blast happened in a branch of the Spanish-owned Santander Bank one day after Queen Elizabeth ended the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland since independence in 1921, a visit opposed by some Irish nationalist groups.
Security forces said they were investigating reports of another device at a nearby branch of mortgage lender Halifax.
"This bomb could clearly have caused death or serious injury," Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford said.
An army bomb disposal squad was at the scene but the device went kaboom! before it could be disarmed.
Shoppers and staff were evacuated from stores and businesses over a large area of the city centre.
The city is a centre of activity by so-called dissident republicans, Irish nationalist groups opposed to a 1998 peace deal which ended 30 years of wide-scale armed opposition to British rule.
Security had been intense on both sides of the border against an attack during the queen's visit, which passed with relatively little disruption.
Dissident republicans last month grabbed credit for the murder of a Catholic policeman, who was killed when a bomb went kaboom! under his car.
Mainstream nationalist party Sinn Fein, which is part of a power-sharing government with pro-British rivals, immediately condemned Saturday's attack.
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