Czech troops may be pulled from Iraq

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http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2003/Art/0814/news3.php

Troops may be pulled from Iraq

Withdrawal mulled in wake of escalating violence in Basra

By Kevin Livingston
Staff Writer, The Prague Post
(August 14, 2003)

Defense Minister Miroslav Kostelka said he will consider withdrawing troops from the Army's 7th Field Hospital if the security situation in the southern Iraqi city of Basra continues to get worse.

Even in the country's more-stable south, violence against coalition troops has increased recently as temperatures have soared and fuel and electricity have grown sparse.

Czech soldiers fired weapons in the air Aug. 10 to disperse an angry crowd that had blocked a convoy carrying drinking water to the hospital. Stones were thrown at the vehicles, and some soldiers received minor injuries.

In separate incidents, an Iraqi man was killed when he attempted to jump on a garbage truck and fell and another crowd attacked two Czech vehicles that were returning from British Command headquarters. On July 23, a patient was injured when shots were fired at the hospital.

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[joeybee12]

1. Hooray!

I have friends in the Czech Republic--everyone there hates Dumbo, so I'm not sure why the government feels the need to support his evil ways. The "coalition of the willing" is getting smaller and smaller.

[sujan]

2. I hope they do pull out

Why should they spill their blood for US's imperialist agenda?