The former paratroop regiment commander caused controversy in France in 2000 when he told a newspaper that torture had been a "necessary evil" in Algeria.

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Colonel Andrew Phillips, the Scottish regiment's commander, sits in at the weekly meetings of the Podujevo town council.

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It was in French Indochina that Gen Bigeard began to make his name as a commander in a Paratroop regiment.

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Calvin Worth, commander of 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, the main assault force.

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