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| Norway To Send 120 Soldiers To Iraq To Help Train Army |
| 2014-10-31 |
| [AnNahar] The Norwegian government said Thursday it would send about 120 troops to Iraq to help train its armed forces in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadists. Prime Minister Erna Solberg however stressed that "the Norwegian military will not follow the Iraqi soldiers into battle." Solberg also told news hounds that "diplomatic and humanitarian means are important but military means are also important" in the battle against IS Lion of Islams. Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide said half of the Norwegian contingent will travel to Baghdad, where it will have an advisory role and support Iraqi security forces. The other half will be in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, where it will be stationed at a training center, she said. The deployment is planned for a period of one year "with the possibility of extension," she added. The center-right minority government's decision received the support of several other parties, including the main opposition Labor Party. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 ISJV would never expect an attack from the Saladin Glacier Pack. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-31 16:36 |
| #1 Several companies of the very finest ski troops. They'll soon be pinin' for the fjords. (No, really. Every one of them.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-31 07:59 |