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2008-01-10 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 Kazahkstan has 29 military personnel in Iraq, combat engineers attached to the Polish contingent, according to Global Security.org

Posted by Gromomble Oppressor of the Iowans8916 2008-01-10 04:31|| 2008-01-10 04:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Is Kazahkstan the only Islamic country with troops in Iraq? (Technically they are only ~half Islamic, but their laws are significantly Islamic - except for the universal suffrage part.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-01-10 07:25|| 2008-01-10 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Kazakhstan is an interesting place. They've sent at least one (ethnically Russian) cadet to West Point under the academy's foreign student program. She did pretty well from what I've been told, academically and on the military side, graduated and went back home to a military commission.

FWIW

Posted by lotp 2008-01-10 08:10|| 2008-01-10 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Did she wear a burqa and chador at the Point? Does she now?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-01-10 08:13|| 2008-01-10 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 What a silly question, NS!

Of course not, to both questions. And last I heard she was a computer science major, which is not surprising since her father was a CS professor.

Posted by lotp 2008-01-10 08:44|| 2008-01-10 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Not silly as to the second.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-01-10 08:45|| 2008-01-10 08:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Ok, it's not entirely a silly question. She does represent what the Islamicists hate and would outlaw if they could. But her government sent her and paid for her time here, so the Islamicists aren't having it all their way by any means.

How it plays out in the future we'll have to see.

Posted by lotp 2008-01-10 08:45|| 2008-01-10 08:45|| Front Page Top

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