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Reservists to boost Iraq forces

BBC

A total of 900 more Armed Forces reservists are to be sent to Iraq, Defence Minister Ivor Caplin has said.

The group, from the Territorial Army in Scotland, will replace 750 part-time men and women serving in and around Basra who are due home in May 2005.

The additional 150 reservists will take over a hospital currently being run by the regular army.

They will be deployed from April 2005 onwards, Mr Caplin said in a written answer in the House of Commons.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4095545.stm

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