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...death camps, and faced punishment for war crimes. Other works surfaced only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of Delacroix's own favorites, Portrait of a Young Man, in which he portrays a pale aesthete wearing a blue cap, was found after a former German soldier on his deathbed confessed to his priest that he possessed the missing painting. The priest informed the French embassy in Berlin, which secured the painting's return to France...
...Last week the Australian Defence Force said it would defend the claim and denied that any of the soldiers acted improperly. But today the soldier who fired on the vehicle spoke for the first time about the incident and revealed he, like a number of his comrades, had left the army after the shooting and was undergoing psychiatric treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome - a condition he believes the army is not doing enough to treat...
...Saadi family allege they had been traveling in their vehicle in a street near the Australian embassy in Baghdad on the evening of February 26, 2005, when they were fired upon without warning. Nezar al-Saadi claims that when he stopped his car, an Australian soldier knelt down and fired four rounds into the passenger side of the vehicle, according to a statement filed in a Brisbane court last week...
...vehicle turn the corner with its lights on and it was traveling reasonably fast. We started holding up our hands making the Arabic signal for stop and calling out the word for stop," he says. "The vehicle came closer and closer until it was about 30m away, when one soldier fired two warning shots above the vehicle. Technically no warning shots should have been fired as we had been told don't fire warning shots. If it's a threat, it's a threat - and you shoot." Ben says he "fired three shots into the vehicle. One went through...
...After the shooting, the soldiers were segregated to write their accounts of the incident. "We never heard either way what the results of the investigation were," says Ben. Another soldier in the unit, who asked not to be named, confirmed most of Ben's story and says Australian soldiers later traveled to the Sadr City hospital where the woman had been taken and arranged her transfer to a U.S. military hospital...