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Old 26th Dec 2008, 11:45
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Phileas Fogg
 
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Of course it wasn't the first warning, if I recall correctly a small number of Argies landed on South Georgia and raised the Argie flag some days in advance of the invasion of the main islands.

But UK had been getting warnings since, certainly, 1977/8 but the UK Conservative government, thereafter, had chosen to disregard these warnings so if anyone is to blame for not preventing the invasion then it is 'Maggie'!
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