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Article: In the line of fire at Camp Shamrock; THE IRISH SOLDIERS WHO RISK LIVES TO KEEP PEACE.(News)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 2, 1998
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IRISH soldiers are surrounded by deadly danger every day in South Lebanon.
They have been in Lebanon for 20 years, helping to maintain the peace and offer humanitarian aid, but because they are peacekeepers, they can't return fire except in extreme cases of self-defence.
As I talked to the squaddies at the base they've nicknamed Camp Shamrock, the radio crackled: "Warning! Shell warning in B company area! Shell warning!"
The accent was unmistakeably Irish. Before he had finished we could hear shells exploding across the valley - not so close as to ...