Petraeus: US is Flying Georgian Troops into Battle
Zone
Exclusive: Deborah Haynes, Baghdad
10/08/08 "The
Times"---- -
'US aircraft have started to fly some of Georgia’s 2,000 troops
in Iraq back home to join the fight in the breakaway province of
South Ossetia, General David Petraeus, the top US commander in
Iraq said toda
“The flights are ongoing to redeploy the elements of the
Georgian contingent so that they can deal with the security
issues in their country,” General Petraeus told The Times in an
interview at his office inside Baghdad’s Green Zone.
He said measures were already in place to mitigate the impact on
operations in Iraq of the sudden departure of the soldiers.
“We can accommodate that. Obviously it was not expected but it
is something, the effects of which we can certainly mitigate.”
The Georgian contingent has been taking part in an operation
with US and Iraqi forces to clear the south-eastern corner of
Diyala province, north of Baghdad, a known al-Qaeda stronghold.
Some 150 Georgian soldiers also guard the Iraqi Parliament
building as well as other key structures inside Baghdad’s
fortified Green Zone.
In addition, one battalion is helping to support the Iraqi
security forces in Wasit province, south of the capital, near
the Iranian border.
what happens if a US military plane carry troops into a combat
zone is shot down (accidentally!) by Russians? US troops did
joint exercises in Georgia last month, are they still there?
jc, white plains ny, usa
God Bless America!! Just another example of U.S. interference in
another country's affairs. One of these days it is all going to
come back & bite them. I suppose this will become part of the
Obama/McCain platform? We screwed up/lied in Iraq so we might as
well move on to Georgia.
IAN RAYBURN, Gloucester, Canada
What? 1000 soldiers to face the Red Army? Who's their leader?
Leonidas?
Eugene, heidelberg, germany
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