- Two British service personnel have been expelled from
Kuwait because of dissident views on the war in Iraq.
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- The two service personnel separately expressed conscientious
objections to the war in Iraq.
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- Their legal representative, Gilbert Blades, says the
soldiers "don't want to be involved in killing innocent civilians".
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- Mr Blades says the soldiers were stationed in the Gulf
before war began but decided not to participate after learning of limited
international support for the conflict.
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- "When all these people who were giving protests
of an unjust war, they said to themselves 'hang on a minute, what are we
doing here?'" he said.
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- The Ministry of Defence has indicated the pair will not
face punishment and says talk of troops' reservations about their role
in the Gulf will be kept to a minimum.
- http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s821206.htm
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