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Reality check in the trenches

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday April 12, 2003 22:06author by Hoon

CLASSIC QUOTE: > A quote from Sky News "Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK > defence minister Geoff Hoon said in The Commons yesterday. "He's either > never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr" says a British > Squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr. Another soldier added: "There's no beer, no > prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Swansea." >

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