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Article: Salvadoran troops in Iraq to move from Najaf to "safer place"
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 27, 2004
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Salvadoran troops in Iraq to move from Najaf to "safer place"
MEXICO CITY, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Salvadoran President Elias
Antonio Saca said on Saturday that his country's troops deployed in
the Iraqi city of Najaf will be moved "to a safer place" till their
mission ends in July, reports reaching here said.
Saca told a press conference in San Salvador that the decision to
move the contingent of the Cuscatlan Battalion was made so that their
humanitarian tasks are conducted "with a better protection."
He also said that a third contingent of Salvadoran soldiers could
be sent to Iraq to replace the current one.
"If the decision to send the third ...