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War Crimes Chapter 23 – The Woman from the “Det”

30th August 2020 Blown Periphery 0

Chapter 23 – The Woman from the “Det” The Special Reconnaissance Regiment, or SRR, is a special reconnaissance unit of the British Army. It was established on 6 April 2005 and is part of the [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 22 – SERE

23rd August 2020 Blown Periphery 0

Chapter 22 – SERE The Nimrod MR4A had been replaced by a USAF Rivet Joint flying out of Incirlik in Turkey. The updated Boeing 707 was in a gentle holding pattern, 35,000 feet above Falluja. [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 21 – The Loadmaster’s Story

16th August 2020 Blown Periphery 0

Chapter 21 – The Loadmaster’s Story The aircraft movements woke him again, specifically a Nimrod MR4A blasting off at 10:00 hrs to commence its eighteen hour patrol, hoovering up electronic intelligence with its 90 antennae. [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 20 – The Loadmaster’s Story

9th August 2020 Blown Periphery 0

Chapter 20 – The Loadmaster’s Story Gilmore woke up around 12:00 because he was too hot and the continual aircraft movements made sleep impossible. He went to the ablutions corimec and pampered himself with an [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 19 – The RAF Loadmaster’s Story

2nd August 2020 Blown Periphery 0

War Crimes Chapter 19 Son of a gun You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht Your hat strategically dipped below one eye Your scarf it was apricot You had one [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 18 – The Long Shot

26th July 2020 Blown Periphery 0

War Crimes Chapter 18 Just before midnight on a late October evening in 2005, a Puma helicopter took off from Basra Air Station and headed north. The aircraft showed no lights, a contrast to the [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 17 – The Girl from the RAF

19th July 2020 Blown Periphery 0

War Crimes Chapter 17 Afarin became another cog in the machine and made a conscious effort to fit in and not piss them off. Her real skills came to the fore while they were interrogating [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 16 – The Little Girl from Derby

12th July 2020 Blown Periphery 0

War Crimes Chapter 16 Afarin Khan had never been blessed with the type of cleverness required to ingest, sift, collate and then regurgitate information onto an examination paper.  If anything as far as the British [more…]

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The Northern Ireland Housing Trust & Rathcoole estate (1945-1971)

6th July 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Between the wars, a big public housing build in other parts of the United Kingdom was not replicated in Northern Ireland. Nor had there been grants for slum clearance. What public housing there was, had [more…]

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