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Tim Collins

Controversy Courts Collins

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins of the Royal Irish Regiment.

In the last issue we printed the extraordinary speech that Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins of the Royal Irish Regiment gave to his men before they went into battle in Iraq. Since then, the Belfast native has been the subject of war crimes allegations made by one U.S. Army major Re Biastre, which Collins is adamantly combating. Biastre accused Collins of pistol-whipping an Iraqi … [Read more...] about Controversy Courts Collins

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