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...embark on a tour of duty in Basra, according to sources in Whitehall. Britain's Ministry of Defence dismisses the reports, but Harry's past comments suggest that he'll report with his regiment. "There's no way I'm going to put myself through [Britain's military academy] Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting," Harry said in a 2005 interview. Should he serve, concerns for the royal's safety will dog Harry as they did his uncle Prince Andrew, who served in the Falklands 25 years ago, in what...
...graduate of the elite Sandhurst Military Academy, Qaboos had British support when he organized the 1970 coup that sent his father Sultan Said bin Taimur into exile. The aging ruler had kept Oman isolated from the rest of the world. The country's few cars crawled along only six miles of roadway. Three primary schools educated a total of 909 males. The gates of Muscat were locked at night, and the use of eyeglasses was banned...
...Though Jordan's royals have publicly united around the latest switch, tongues are still wagging about this new burst of palace infighting. In his dismissal letter, Abdullah said he had decided to "free" the Sandhurst graduate of his "symbolic" post in order to let him undertake unspecified responsibilities and missions. Hamzah's terse reply quoted a Koranic verse, saying simply, "Obey ... those charged with authority...
...capital, Malabo, testified last week that he met Thatcher last year, and that Mann and Thatcher had discussed the sale of helicopters for mining operations in Sudan. Mann may be the most direct link between Thatcher and the coup plot. In the early 1990s, the Eton and Sandhurst-educated Briton set up a security consultancy known as Executive Outcomes, which was hired for private military operations by governments in Africa. A letter from Mann to his wife smuggled out of his Harare prison cell and shown to British newspapers suggests that he was expecting $200,000 from "Scratcher" - believed...
...been forced to grow up fast. Many of them had fought in World War II; one of them, Charles Wylie, had been a prisoner of the Japanese at the notorious Changi camp in Singapore. The experience of wartime meant that the expedition was planned as a military exercise. At Sandhurst, the British West Point, Hunt had been first in his class and later served on the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. He was a man who paid appropriate attention to morale, logistics, supplies and technology. If, like me, you listened to General Tommy Franks and Defense Secretary...