[lbo-talk] Infantry votes with feet

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Thu Dec 11 09:02:14 PST 2003


Pentagon: One-third of new soldiers in Iraq army quit just before starting operations By Pauline Jelinek, 12/10/2003 15:19

WASHINGTON (AP) Plans to deploy the first battalion of Iraq's new army are in doubt because a third of the soldiers trained by the U.S.-led occupation authority have quit, defense officials said Wednesday. Touted as a key to Iraq's future, the 700-man battalion lost some 250 men over recent weeks as they were preparing to begin operations this month, Pentagon officials said. Full: http://tinyurl.com/ynmj



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