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Saddam is neither friend, nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

- Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov (1 April, BBC News)

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SLT

Second Language Training Sub-Lieutenant (SLt)

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Today in Military History

June 6

1813:

British defeat American army at Stoney Creek, Upper Canada

1944:

D-Day, Canadian casualties are described as "light"; 340 killed, 574 wounded, 47 captured

1944:

NORMANDY LANDING

1944:

NORTH-WEST EUROPE 194-45, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 5 May 45)

1944:

R.R.C. - based in Toronto. Served in England and France - parachuted in to France.

1945:

Lt. Andre van Kerre Broeck- de Sonneville Belgian Army/Resistance fighter/Dutch-French Connection walks back to Belgium barefoot after 3 years of Nazi incarceration

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