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arcticpenguin
26th March 2003, 12:25 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2889703.stm


A British man has reportedly handed himself in to the Desert Rats in Iraq after travelling there to fight for Saddam Hussein.
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The man handed himself in after joining Iraqi militia in civilian clothing in an attack on UK forces.
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Army sources told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the captured man had taunted soldiers.

Corporal Jonathan Duffy, 21, an infantry man with the First Battalion Irish Guards, said: "He was being very arrogant and offensive, swearing at everyone.

"He said that he came out here to fight against coalition forces because he didn't believe in what we were doing.

"But when it came to it he didn't fight properly at all, he just surrendered. He was a coward."


I assume Britain handles treason in about the same way the U.S. does?

Jocko
26th March 2003, 12:28 PM
Originally posted by arcticpenguin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2889703.stm



I assume Britain handles treason in about the same way the U.S. does?

You know, I haven't heard much out of UCE lately... coincidence?

Troll
26th March 2003, 12:30 PM
Originally posted by Jocko


You know, I haven't heard much out of UCE lately... coincidence?

haha:D

DrBenway
26th March 2003, 12:35 PM
"But when it came to it he didn't fight properly at all, he just surrendered. He was a coward."

Awaiting the inevitable French jokes...

Reginald
26th March 2003, 12:47 PM
Originally posted by arcticpenguin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2889703.stm



I assume Britain handles treason in about the same way the U.S. does?

TBH What do the US do? Death penalty?

We dont, and there you go, you find out something every day. I thought that 2 offences in the UK still carried a possible death penalty, I now know that.....

The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 abolished the death penalty for the remaining civilian offences of treason and piracy.


The military did likewise in 1999 it seems

So the worst he can get is a long stay at her majesty's pleasure, although what she will do with him once she gets him there is her business.