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NZ Iraq troops home by Saturday

by Open-Publishing - Friday 24 September 2004
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NEW Zealand’s military personnel in Iraq will be home Saturday, Defence Minister Mark Burton said in a statement Thursday.

The 61 army engineers, who have been based in Basra in southern Iraq, were due to leave by the end of the month after a year long deployment.

They are to be flown out on a military Boeing 757 and be greeted by Prime Minister Helen Clark at Ohakea base, north of here.

Clark earlier said it was unlikely any further deployments would be made.

"I can’t see that at this time. I think Iraq is just too difficult and too dangerous," she told Radio New Zealand Wednesday.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10853927%255E1702,00.html

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  • New Zealanders can be proud of their government for not supporting this terrible war that America has created. Gone are the days that America was known for its generous giving people and its inovative and creative abilities.

    Now Americans are known as warmongers too stupid to know the truth or too arragant to want to. We are hated around the world thanks to the Nazis now in power.