The soldier said there were large stores of food and even supplies of electricity for commanders.
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The soldier said he was suffering from PTSD, his leaders were punishing him and he didn't know what to do.
While he has used prosthetic legs, the former soldier said he hated not having hands.
The paper said the soldier was arrested at his home in Tamworth, in the central English county of Staffordshire, where he was on leave following the war.
In London, the Ministry of Defense said the soldier, who was attached to the 21 Engineer Regiment, was killed by small arms fire at Patrol Base Hazrat.
The spokesman said that the soldier's mother had been informed that prosecution was being considered.
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The Sun said the unidentified soldier was serving in the 1st battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers -- part of the Desert Rats -- in southern Iraq at the time of the alleged events.
The ex-soldier said it was "a monument to ordinary soldiers and I was an ordinary soldier".
The soldier, who said he was given the gun as a present while serving in Iraq, was originally given an 18-month sentence, which was later reduced to 12 months and suspended.
The 38-year-old soldier said he was given the gun as a present while serving in Iraq.
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The defence ministry said the special forces soldier died in the far north of the West African nation after his vehicle hit a roadside bomb.
The soldier's colleagues said he was a "fantastic, engaging and professional man" who was "universally popular".
French officers launched an air and ground search and said the soldier's disappearance had been "a mystery".
Police spokesman George Economou said the soldier had been pronounced dead on arrival at Famagusta General Hospital in Paralimni.
Col Wakefield said the soldier's "courage and his sacrifice will not be forgotten".
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Capt Richard Sawyer said the soldier was "undoubtedly one of life's true characters".
Taber-Thomas said the soldier's body was returned Thursday to Dover Air Force Base.
Lt Turkington's family said they were "devastated" by their loss and said the soldier had been "relentless and steadfast in his pursuit of those causes he believed in".
He said the soldier from the French Foreign Legion was killed as special forces hunted militants hiding in the Ifoghas Massif - a remote mountain region in the Sahara.
Keith Robertson, a friend of Pte Hetherington, said the soldier had represented Scotland at lacrosse in the European Championship in 2008 and World Championship in 2010, and was captain at the 2012 European Championship.
Det Chief Insp John Coull said the soldier, who was based at Brompton Barracks in Dock Road, Gillingham, was in a drunken state in an area close to the river when he was last seen.
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But a statement issued through the soldier's solicitor on Thursday said given the "extraordinarily dangerous situation" facing soldiers in Iraq, the decision to prosecute the soldier was "astonishing".
The measure of a soldier can fairly be said to consist of his ability to maintain the respect of his peers and his subordinates while earning it anew from his superiors.
The French defence ministry said the 32-year-old soldier was killed between Zaouaten and Boughessa near the border with Algeria.
"In our eyes he was already a soldier, " the family said in a statement.
John Henry Browne, the Seattle attorney directing the soldier's defense, said his client would plead guilty at a June 5 hearing to all charges, including premeditated murder.
Soldier 135 said the car stopped at a checkpoint and that he immediately fired a rubber bullet into it to get the driver and the passenger out.
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Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon - himself a former soldier - said the move would relieve the suffering of the soldiers' relatives but that it was not a "wise" thing to do.
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"To be prepared is at the heart of the soldier's job, " he said in his annual New Year's message to the French armed forces.
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