Mr. BRIAN ROONEY (Attorney, Thomas More Law Center): Colonel Chessani actually went to the battlefield that night.

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Mafeking remained famous because the commander of the besieged garrison, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, went on to found the scouting movement.

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He was born in Ealing, went to Hendon grammar school, and served in the Army during the war, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

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But there was also a very striking moment when I was traveling with them in which we went into a classroom full of schoolchildren, and the Iraqi colonel I was with was eager to extract from these children some information about two suspects that he and his men were searching for.

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