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First Iraqi Soldiers Try to Surrender Frightened by British live fire exercise Frightened Iraqi soldiers, fearing the war had begun, tried to surrender to British troops last Monday. The Iraqis waved a white flag as British paratroopers conducted a weapons test. The Iraqis thought the war had begun. The paratroopers told them to go back, and that it was too early to surrender. Mike Hamilton reports in the Daily Mirror: A British Army source in Kuwait contacted me to explain how the extraordinary surrender bid unfolded. The source said: "The British guys on the front-line could not believe what was happening. They were on pre-war exercises when all of a sudden these Iraqis turned up out of nowhere, with their hands in the air, saying they wanted to surrender. "They had heard firing and thought it was the start of the war. We can only hope this is a sign of things to come.
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