Today we are told that about 2, 000 Basra civilians who tried to come out of the town towards the British positions were fired upon by these militias, and then the British started to fire on these militias.
The fire at the 54-bedroom hotel was described by firefighters as the worst British hotel fire in 40 years.
The pilot and a British passenger jumped to safety when the fire erupted, which affected the balance of the balloon, sending more heat into its "envelope" and causing it to climb rapidly, he said.
With Nazi forces advancing rapidly on the valley and British Spitfires desperately trying to draw German fire, the transport planes evacuated about 1, 000 wounded partisans in a matter of hours.
Coming under heavy fire from the British media on Tuesday about the U.S. insistence that the Al Qaeda prisoners were unlawful combatants and therefore not subject to the rules of the Geneva Convention, Blair's press spokesman repeatedly said that it was not for the UK to intervene in the treatment of the prisoners.
Pte Wood and Pte Hutchinson, both of the Royal Logistic Corps, were killed in a fire at Camp Bastion - the main British military base in Afghanistan.
The inquiry, which is being held at the Guildhall in Londonderry, is investigating events when British paratroopers opened fire on a banned civil rights procession in the city's Bogside area in 1972, killing 14 people.
One example of his outreach work was persuading a British radical who had unceremoniously set fire to a large paper poppy, the British symbol of remembrance for their war dead, to see the error of his ways.
The armed forces' rules of engagement stipulate under what circumstances British forces are allowed to open fire, either in direct contact with the enemy or to prevent an imminent attack.
Though the name may suggest an American mock-British theme pub, the Cheshire Cheese has been around since the Great Fire and former patrons include James Boswell, Voltaire, Thackeray and Dickens.
The result was that swarms of British troops went over the top into a hail of German machine-gun fire.
One thing is does rather do though is light a small fire under a general contention of the British left.
British units opening fire with artillery on the southern city of Basra after what UK officials said were attacks by Iraqi forces.
Americans are taught that it was the British soldiers sent there to confiscate weapons who opened fire, sparking the revolution that brought independence to the United States.
But in the following decades the plan came under fire, mostly from American and British historians.
Feigning surprise, the British and French issued an ultimatum to both sides to cease fire.
The initial review at the scene, by Nato specialists and Afghan government representatives, concluded the shooting was not a "friendly fire" incident involving British forces.
Birmingham City Council said more than 500 organisations in Europe had installed "fire-free" rooms in their premises including the British Library in London.
BBC: 'Fire-free' rooms at Birmingham library protect archive
The only other case of British service personnel being killed by in friendly fire involving American military personnel in Afghanistan in still under investigation.
For the first time in 200 years, 17 tall ships will line up against each other and fire black gunpowder cannons to recreate the fight against the British that allowed the United States to secure its current border with Canada.
He identified a number of variables that could have affected the pilot's decision to fire on what turned out to be British troops.
Acclaimed British blues singer Joe Cocker made his return to the albums chart with Fire It Up, his first new material in almost three years and his 23rd studio album, which ended the week at number 17.
It was not something that would fire 'em up in the bleachers (stands, for our British readers).
In 1940, the troop ship Lancastria was sunk by enemy fire after having taken on board British troops who were evacuating from France.
One was a 1.8-metric ton British air bomb that could have wiped out the city center, according to the local fire brigade.
According to the British telex, your legal department advised there'd be no violation of the cease-fire.
There were also unconfirmed reports that refugees were being shelled by mortar and artillery fire in the Pagarusa Valley, along Kosovo's western border with Albania, British Air Commodore David Wilby said.
Two other British nationals, a Norwegian, two police officers and a security guard were also hurt in the fire fight, he added.
New York fire chief Joe Callan, who survived the collapse of the World Trade Center, marched alongside British firefighters to the Cenotaph.
However, the UK Government may come under fire from the opposition Conservative Party, which called for the army to be withdrawn after a British soldier died during September's daring operation to rescue British troops held hostage by the West Side Boys militia.
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