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Richard Wadani still remembers the sick feeling in his stomach the morning he left Hitler's Wehrmacht in October 1944, knowing as he crawled through a tangle of barbed wire as dawn broke that one wrong move would cost him his life.
Canadian Parliament will consider a bill introduced Thursday that would allow American and other war resisters to stay in Canada.
Parliament's lower house passed a nonbinding motion Tuesday allowing U.S. military deserters to stay in Canada, but the Conservative government was expected to ignore the vote.
Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
There is no crack team of bounty hunters, no elite military unit whose job is to track them down and bring them in.
Army Deserter Returns From CanadaArmy Deserter Returns From Canada February 10, 2009 Associated Press
Since the beginning of the Iraq War, Canada has hosted a number of Americans who have decided that they no longer wish to serve in the U.S. military and deploy to Mess-o-Potamia for a first, second, or third tour.
U.S. Soldiers No Longer Find Haven in CanadaJames Corey Glass, apprentice mortician and United States Army deserter, was keeping an unusually close eye on the text messages coming into his cellphone. He was hoping to hear that a court had blocked the Canadian government's attempt to send him back to the United States.
Iraq security forces fire 1,300 deserters for refusing to fight Shiite militiasIraqi officials said Sunday that they had fired about 1,300 soldiers and police officers who refused to fight Shiite Muslim militias during the recent government crackdown, desertions that raise questions about the likely performance of Iraqi forces as U.S. troop levels decrease.
US Deserters lose Canada asylum bidTwo US army deserters who fled to Canada in protest against the Iraq war have lost a fresh asylum appeal bid. The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey against a decision by officials to deny them refugee status.
U.S. deserters lose bid for Canada refugee statusOTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - Two Americans who deserted the U.S. Army to protest against the war in Iraq lost their bid for refugee status in Canada on Thursday, and the Canadian government made it clear they were no longer welcome.
Pak losing territory to pro-Taliban rebels-Pakistan-World-The Times of IndiaPakistan is fast losing chunks of its territory to pro-Taliban rebels.
US military deserters seek refuge in CanadaWarning: this article contains some graphic depictions that some may find disturbing. BEFORE he deserted the US Marines, Dean Walcott rode shotgun on besieged convoys to Baghdad and spent a second Iraq tour setting up military communications.
Britain to pardon First World War deserters after their firing squad executionNine decades after their ignominious death by firing squad, dozens of Canadian First World War soldiers executed for desertion may soon be getting posthumous pardons.
Thousands of troops say they won't fightMagaoay said his disillusionment with the military began in boot camp in Twentynine Palms, Calif., where a superior officer joked about killing and mistreating Iraqis.
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