Shhh....no one will know you're there

Grant Lee grantlee at iinet.net.au
Thu Mar 27 09:06:23 PST 2003


"Polish forces criticised for flag photos," by Jan Repa, 25 March, 2003

"Poland's defence minister has criticised a special operations commando unit for posing for photographs with American soldiers after fighting in southern Iraq.

The minister, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, said members of the elite Grom unit should have remained under cover.

Polish newspapers have been full of photos of "our boys" - handing over Iraqi prisoners to the Americans, defacing a portrait of Saddam Hussein and smiling to camera under an American flag.

Mr Szmajdzinski says they should have kept themselves out of the limelight - or at the very least have used a Polish flag.

In fact, Grom's cover had already been blown by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who said on Sunday that the US-UK assault force was being actively supported by troops from Australia and Poland."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2886759.stm



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