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category national | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Wednesday July 23, 2008 14:47author by sceal Report this post to the editors

mer·ce·nar·y
adjective

1. Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain.
2. Hired for service in a foreign army.

A mercenary from Dublin was among the latest person injured in the continuing occupation of Afghanistan. Martin Delaney, from County Dublin, was fighting with the British Army in Helmand Province. Last week a nineteen year old man from Belfast had his leg amputated because of injuries he received while fighting with the same unit.
mercenary.jpg

About 110 people have been killed fighting with the British during the occupation of Afghanistan. No figures are available for the numbers of Afghans who have been killed by the occupation forces.

The British army recruits mercenaries from many countries, but no other European Union state allows its citizens to fight for them.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Grammar     Richard J Daley    Wed Jul 23, 2008 15:22 
   NOUN     grammar    Wed Jul 23, 2008 15:26 
   going by that definition     A10    Wed Jul 23, 2008 15:52 
   not exactly     anon    Wed Jul 23, 2008 16:09 
   for hire     career girl    Wed Jul 23, 2008 16:55 
   The term mercenary is an unworthy slur in this case     Sceptic    Wed Jul 23, 2008 17:27 
   questions for sceptic     septic    Wed Jul 23, 2008 17:37 
   Yeah Career Girl     A10    Wed Jul 23, 2008 18:04 
   mercenary or not     JJ O'Kelly    Wed Jul 23, 2008 18:22 
 10   What motivates people to fight for foreign armies ?     Mike    Wed Jul 23, 2008 19:12 
 11   Irish heroism continues.     Righteous Pragmatist    Wed Jul 23, 2008 19:32 
 12   freedom here?     JJ O' Kelly    Wed Jul 23, 2008 21:02 
 13   Yes JJ I do     A10    Wed Jul 23, 2008 22:05 
 14   Not if they deliberately kill innocent civilians     Rghteous Pragmatist    Wed Jul 23, 2008 22:08 
 15   Irish Mercenary     Raewald    Wed Jul 23, 2008 23:25 
 16   Sympathy     Justin Morahan    Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:15 
 17   Reply to questions     Sceptic    Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:31 
 18   Soldier for hire     wiki    Fri Jul 25, 2008 14:18 
 19   Courage and wisdom     Lemuel Gulliver IV    Fri Jul 25, 2008 17:11 
 20   Terrorist     Buckbowski    Fri Jul 25, 2008 17:21 
 21   Stolen Property ?     Mike    Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:10 
 22   Presumably Tom Barry was a mercanry too?     Sceptic    Sat Jul 26, 2008 14:13 
 23   The Irish At War.     Jim    Sat Jul 26, 2008 14:48 
 24   Traitor or Mercenary?     Bazooka Joe    Sat Jul 26, 2008 15:41 
 25   mercenary     bird watcher    Sat Jul 26, 2008 15:45 
 26   Unpaid mercenaries?     Lemuel    Sat Jul 26, 2008 21:53 
 27   Misuse of the word "Mercenary"     jager996    Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:20 
 28   mercenary is what he is     baghram    Tue Aug 05, 2008 17:52 
 29   what year is it     volunteer    Thu Aug 07, 2008 01:41 
 30   blind and bitter anglohobia     Sceptic    Fri Aug 08, 2008 09:38 
 31   Native Americans     Custard    Fri Aug 08, 2008 16:37 
 32   what year is this     people    Wed Aug 20, 2008 15:36 
 33   mercenary     realist    Wed Aug 20, 2008 16:27 
 34   To the Hypocrites     Jed    Fri Aug 22, 2008 02:14 
 35   jed     ger    Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:37 
 36   Soldier fom "Royal Irish Regiment" killed in Afghanistan     gallowglass    Thu Sep 04, 2008 23:21 
 37   Interested to know     Arthur    Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:54 
 38   mercenary is a dictionary definition     look it up    Fri Sep 05, 2008 14:42 
 39   politics of mercenaries     wo    Wed Aug 04, 2010 16:38 
 40   imperial war participants     opus diablos    Wed Aug 04, 2010 16:57 
 41   Point of fact.     Irish Ranger.    Wed Dec 01, 2010 13:11 
 42   Shame     Irish Ranger    Wed Dec 01, 2010 13:52 
 43   Pity the fool.     Lord Kitchener at my Hamster.    Wed Dec 01, 2010 14:57 
 44   right     Irish Ranger    Wed Dec 01, 2010 16:08 
 45   ok     Irish Ranger    Wed Dec 01, 2010 16:12 
 46   explain pls     Irish Ranger    Wed Dec 01, 2010 16:31 
 47   definition     dictioary corner    Wed Dec 01, 2010 22:18 
 48   defination     Irish Ranger    Thu Dec 02, 2010 03:02 
 49   @Irish Ranger     A    Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:11 
 50   by dad's army, he's got it..     opus diablos    Thu Dec 02, 2010 14:41 


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