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<p>JOHANNESBURG - A Zimbabwean soldier who died while serving with British forces in Iraq has been vilified by the government of President Robert Mugabe, and his family has been harassed by the country's notorious secret police.</p> <p>Pvt. Christopher Muzvuru, 21, was killed April 6 when his unit overran the town of Basra. But in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, the state media have called him a mercenary and a sellout.</p>

A Zimbabwean soldier killed in Iraq who had signed up to serve in the British Army has been denounced as a "traitor" by Robert Mugabe's regime. The country's state-controlled media has called for the body of "mercenary" Piper Christopher Muzvuru, of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, to be buried in Britain and not returned to Zimbabwe. Piper Muzvuru, 21, who said shortly before his death that his dearest ambition was to play the bagpipes before the Queen, was killed by a sniper in Basra. Last night his brother, Munqondfi, said from the family's home in Gweru, near Bulawayo: "We don't...

Names of the four US Marines who died in yesterday's helicopter crash: Maj. Jay Thomas Aubin, 36, of Waterville, Maine Capt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre, 30, of Bloomington, Ill. Cpl. Brian Matthew Kennedy, 25, of Houston, Texas Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Watersbey, 29, of Baltimore, Md. The Pentagon has just released the names of two more US Marines who were killed in Iraq. I'll post as soon as I find that.