The Londoners in Tale of Two Causes ; War On Terror: Family Mourns Son Who Always Dreamed of Army Career While Rebel Volunteers Vow to Die for Land of Their Birth: One Soldier Went to Iraq and Died in Ambush. On the Other Side, Two Joined Militia That Killed Him

Evening Standard - London › August 11, 2004

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THEY were three young men from London, whose very different ambitions took them to the tinderbox of Iraq, and who proudly took up their guns for a cause.

One, Lee O'Callaghan, had never made a secret of his desire to join the British Army. In a telephone call to his parents he told them about the good his unit was doing for the Iraqi people.

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The Londoners in Tale of Two Causes ; War On Terror: Family Mourns Son Who Always Dreamed of Army Career While Rebel Volunteers Vow to Die for Land of Their Birth: One Soldier Went to Iraq and Died in Ambush. On the Other Side, Two Joined Militia That Killed Him

Hours after that call, Private O'Callaghan, 20, was shot dead in an ambush.

The other two, of a similar age - and having grown up a few miles from the Walworth estate where Pte O'Callaghan's f...

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