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Article: Fellow warriors; A salute to Australian soldiers this Anzac Day.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2003
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Byline: John B. Dwyer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
As April 25th approaches, let us remember the tremendous contribution of the Australian military to the success of Operation Iraqi Freedom: In the air, its FA-18 Squadron; at sea, the ANZAC and the DARWIN, along with Navy divers; on land, its elite SAS, an Army Commando Task Group and other units.
A component of coalition special-operations forces, the SAS, for instance, captured 60 senior Iraqi officials trying to leave the country with $600,000 in U.S. currency and, more recently, discovered a huge armaments cache that included 51 MIG jets, or half the Iraqi air force. They participated in western ...