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| SKors extend troop deployment in Iraq for another year |
| 2005-01-01 |
| Seoul, South Korea-AP Dec. 31, 2004 - South Korea's troops are apparently staying in Iraq for another year. Lawmakers have voted to keep South Korea's 3,600 troops in Iraq until at least the end of 2005. The plan was approved just before the troops' previous mandate in Iraq expired at midnight. South Korea is the third-largest contributor of troops after the US and Britain. But the country's contingent isn't involved in combat operations, and consists mostly of engineers and medics. South Korea completed deploying its forces to the Kurdish town of Irbil last month. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 But the country's contingent isn't involved in combat operations, and consists mostly of engineers and medics. That's ok. We (US, GBrit, Poland, and those scrappy South Americans) will do the fighting, and be grateful that the South Koreans are handling some of the rebuilding. Many thanks, gentlemen! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-01 9:59:40 AM |