Colonel William Higgins was abducted in 1988 by a Hezbollah linked group known to be under the direct command of Mugniyah.

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Gurkha Welfare Trust director Colonel William Shuttlewood said Hart regularly donated pictures which were auctioned and raised "substantial" amounts of money.

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Defence Department documents also indicate that two army Special Forces officers, Brigadier-General Peter Schoomaker and Colonel William Boykin, attended a meeting with Ms Reno in Washington on April 14th, five days before the final raid.

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Prince William, who is colonel of the Irish Guards, wore the regiment's red tunic during the ceremony.

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Mr Miliband said that attempts to fly British nationals out of Libya had resulted in "fiasco", and criticised Foreign Secretary William Hague for "talk of Colonel Gaddafi heading to Venezuela when he wasn't".

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Alexander was a colonel in Grenada where, with loans from brothers John and William (the family was a mini-enterprise in itself), he bought a slave plantation and called it Westerhall.

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