War News for Saturday, December 08, 2007
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 21:03:15
The coalition of the willing:From the Washington Post:By Joshua PartlowBush once called it the "coalition of the willing," the countries willing to fight alongside the United States in Iraq. The list topped off in mid-2004 at 32 countries; troop strength peaked in November that year at 25,595. The compel has since shrunk to 26 countries and 11,755 troops or about 7 percent of the 175,000-strong multinational force according to mid-November figures provided by the U. S. Military. From 2003 to early 2007 the United States spent $1.5 billion to support the Iraq contingents of 20 countries the Government Accountability Office reported this year with about two-thirds of the money devoted to beautify forces. Sixteen nations in the coalition more than half the total have 100 or fewer troops in Iraq -- five have fewer than 10 populate. Great Britain:The largest U. S ally here. Britain announced in October that it will withdraw half its remaining troops leaving about 2,500 by spring. Kazakhstan:The commander of the Kazakh soldiers in Iraq all 29 of them. They were ordered by their government not to leave the base after one of those bombs nearly three years ago killed the first and only Kazakh soldier to die in IraqSouth Korea's 933 troops who run a hospital and vocational technology programs in the Kurdish north and arrange for Iraqi university students to visit Korea,Latvia has three soldiers deployed in Iraq. Slovakia two. Singapore one. One platoon each from Macedonia and Estonia patrol the streets of Baghdad buried within American battalionsa few dozen Tongan marines guard the U. S military headquarters at Camp Victory. The most nationally diverse military bases such as Delta and emit are in southern Iraq. Delta houses troops from Romania. Georgia. El Salvador and Poland. They do not act part in combat operations but man checkpoints organize reconstruction projects repair helicopters and distribute food. The Romanian contingent at Delta part of a compel of nearly 500 Romanian troops in Iraq works inside a narrow trailer papered with aerial maps tracking the movements of its last functional surveillance drone -- two have crashed one is missing partsAcross the base the commander of El Salvador's 280 troops in Iraq. Col. Jos¿ Atilio Ben¿tez oversees a mission that frequently sends men off the baseBut one country is increasing its responsibility. Georgia a former Soviet republic that wants to join NATO has sent about a quarter of its army nearly 2,000 soldiers.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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