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| Albanian army unit to join US troops |
| 2003-04-14 |
| An Albanian army unit was to leave on Tuesday for the Gulf region to contribute to maintaining peace and protecting public buildings in Iraq alongside American soldiers, Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano said. "We are obliged and honoured to remain with the coalition to contribute to reconstruction of peace and democracy in that region," Nano said Monday at a ceremony in Tirana. Thank you Seventy soldiers of an Albanian commando unit will join the 5th corps of the US army, currently deployed in Iraq. "Our soldiers will contribute to maintaining the peace," General Pellumb Qazimi, chief of staff of the Albanian army said, adding that the unit would also be charged with protecting important public premises in Iraq. Good, we need cops now. President Alfred Moisiu said Tirana was "convinced that Iraq, with the US engagement, supported by the United Nations and the international community, will take the road towards development and progress after the war." Albania was among the first eastern European countries to support US military intervention in Iraq, opening its air space and ports for the coalition. Its soldiers have so far taken part in the international peace missions in Afganistan and Bosnia. Welcome aboard |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #9 R. Lee Ermey for US Ambassador to France. With the other Marines already present at the embassy, that might be enough to force their surrender. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-04-14 22:30:59 |
| #8 Can't we deploy these guys directly to France? 70 Albanians vs. 65 million French is about right. |
| Posted by: Matt 2003-04-14 18:49:24 |
| #7 I couldn't find an e-mail address for the Albanian Embassy in Washington, so I sent an e-mail to the U.S. Embassy in Tirana (wm_tirana@pd.state.gov) and asked that they pass on my thanks and the thanks of other Americans for this. Albania is now on my list of European countries to visit the next time I travel east, rather than the Axis of Weasels, as I used to do. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2003-04-14 18:42:58 |
| #6 Thanx a million, Albania! |
| Posted by: KP 2003-04-14 16:16:54 |
| #5 The mountaineers of Albania are some of the toughest folks out there. Great to have you! |
| Posted by: Christopher Johnson 2003-04-14 16:04:51 |
| #4 Viva la Albania! |
| Posted by: g wiz 2003-04-14 15:29:50 |
| #3 Thank you, Albania! |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-04-14 15:20:00 |
| #2 and muslim peacekeepers - nice touch |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-14 13:44:07 |
| #1 Beautiful - an international peacekeeping force begins to take shape and there's not a powder-blue helmet in sight. Nice shot across the bow of the UN here. |
| Posted by: B. 2003-04-14 13:34:49 |