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UK News 28-04-2005
who: Iraq war hero Private Johnson Beharry
what: Presented with Victoria Cross by Her majesty the Queen
where: Buckingham Palace, LONDON
when: Wednesday
snippet: The Queen told the 25 year-old he was "very special," reports The Scotsman. The first living recipient of a VC since 1965, originally from the Caribbean island of Grenada, "cheated death" twice "to save his colleagues and on the second occasion was left in a coma with serious head wounds". A poll for The Independent says "most people want British troops withdrawn from Iraq by the end of this year". In other Iraq news, The Times says Iraqi woman MP Lameah Abed Khadouri al-Sakri was been killed outside her brother`s home in Baghdad, where a man with a pistol shot her nine times in the head and chest; and The Scotsman says coalition forces have gleaned vital intelligence from a laptop computer thought to belong to terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. At home, the father of 14 year-old Nathaniel Titley, a pupil at Cathays High School, says bullies forced his son to watch a video of the brutal execution of Ken Bigley. [... more]
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