The ANNOTICO Report
The sooner Italy and the US get out of Iraq where they don't belong, and NEVER did, the Better!!!!
China View
August 13, 2005
ROME, (Xinhuanet) -- Italy is starting to withdraw troops
from Iraq, about one month ahead of scheduled, local media reported on
Saturday.
The withdrawal process was put forward because 130 Marines
in southern Iraq had finished their mission and it is pointless to replace
them as Italy had planned to pull out 300 troops in September, a spokesman
of the Italian contingent in Nassiriya was quoted as saying.
The 130 troops will leave for home soon, he said.
An official of the Italian Defense Ministry, who refused
to be named, said the decision was purely logistical and financial, rather
than political.
Italy has some 3,000 troops in Iraq, the fourth largest
foreign contingent there after the United States, Britain and South Korea.
Most of the Italian forces are deployed in southern Iraq. [RAA NOTE: Mostly
protecting the Italian Oil Concession from either Iraqis or Americans,
or Both!!!
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