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| Dutch Iraqi peacekeeping mission will end in March | |
| 2005-01-19 | |
Dutch ministers have decided against a gradual withdrawal of the nation's peacekeeping troops from Iraq and the mission will end as planned mid-March, it was reported on Monday. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, Foreign Minister Ben Bot and Defence Minister Henk Kamp met on Monday morning to discuss a proposed gradual withdrawal to ensure a vacuum is not left behind in the Dutch patrol area. But a spokesman for Balkenende later told news agency ANP that the soldiers will be definitely withdrawn as planned in March. The full Cabinet will confirm the decision at its weekly meeting on Friday. The Dutch security responsibilities in the patrol area in the southern Iraqi province al-Muthanna will then be handed over to the British in March.
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| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #4 Trailing Wife, In America, yes, in Britain and Poland, probably. NOT in Germany, France, and the other nuthouse countries such as Belgium and Luxembourg. |
| Posted by: leaddog2 2005-01-19 2:26:41 PM |
| #3 I wonder how these soldiers will take to being abused by Moslems back home Sort of like how the American soldiers will respond to leftist abuse here: run for office and quietly change things, permanently. The next 20 years are going to be very interesting. (The Sixty-Eighters got it all their own way for a generation. Now its time for the 9/11-ers.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-19 11:38:46 AM |
| #2 I wonder how these soldiers will take to being abused by Moslems back home, once they return? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-01-19 10:31:58 AM |
| #1 Fair enough. After the new government is confirmed, the Iraqis are supposed to take care of themselves. Dank ye wel! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-19 6:14:17 AM |