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Mon Aug-11-08 10:17 AM
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13. Petraeus: US is flying Georgian troops into battle zone

Source: Times Online

Exclusive: Deborah Haynes, Baghdad
US aircraft have started to fly some of Georgia’s 2,000 troops in Iraq back home to join the fight in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq said today.

“The flights are ongoing to redeploy the elements of the Georgian contingent so that they can deal with the security issues in their country,” General Petraeus told The Times in an interview at his office inside Baghdad’s Green Zone.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article4498032.ece

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