Major General Patrick Cordingley, a brigade commander in the Gulf war, said this was to be expected.

BBC: 'Low morale' permeates British troops

"We resumed our search this morning and found the bodies lying on different floors of the factory building, " Brigadier General Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah of the Dhaka fire brigade told AFP news agency.

BBC: Dhaka Bangladesh clothes factory fire kills more than 100

Major-General Patrick Cordingley, who commanded a British armoured brigade during the Gulf War, told a meeting in London recently that Saddam Hussein faced "inevitable consequences" if he did not allow the weapons inspectors in.

BBC: British Tornado jet in file photo

Prof Bogdanor and Major General Patrick Cordingley, former commander of 7th Armoured Brigade and vice president of the UK National Defence Association, debate how far former commanders should be allowed to enter the public forum.

BBC: Guthrie comments 'beyond acceptable'

At a seminar in Abu Dhabi this week, Major-General Patrick Cordingley, a Briton who commanded a brigade in the Gulf war, maintained that Gulf security was still threatened by potentially hostile neighbours (read Iraq and Iran), ballistic missiles, lethal agents like poison gas, and internal unrest.

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Beau serves as Delaware's Attorney General and recently returned home from Iraq where he served as a Captain in the 261st Signal Brigade of the Delaware National Guard.

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