Mission impossible

THE Government must not send an Irish Army contingent to Iraq because they would be targeted and massacred.

Mission impossible
Sat, 13 Sep, 2003 - 01:00

Why? Because when the British Army invaded Basra and Nasiriayh the Royal Irish Regiment, formerly the Ulster Defence Regiment, flew the Irish flag.

There are soldiers in this regiment from the Republic, but that does not give them the right to fly the Irish flag as a matter of convenience.

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