- Title: IRAQ: PORTUGUESE CONTINGENT OF 131 POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVE
- Date: 19th November 2003
- Summary: (W8) WHITE HORSE BASE, NASSIRIYA, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 18, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PORTUGUESE TROOPS UNLOADING GEAR; SLV PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS MOVING GEAR INTO BARRACKS (8 SHOTS) 1.09 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIT COMMANDER, CAPTAIN FERNANDO PESSA SAYING "We are 131-man unit, that came to Nassariya and arrived yesterday. They came to perform the normal tasks as contingents. They will stay in Nassariya but could work in all areas of the division." 1.29 3. SLV TROOPS; SLV SOLDIERS MOVING GEAR FROM LORRY; SLV SOLDIERS CARRYING GEAR; SLV SOLDIERS; SCU SOLDIER'S UNIFORM (8 SHOTS) 2.37 4. MV SOLDIERS STANDING AROUND WOODEN BOX; SCU PORTUGAL BADGE ON UNIFORM 3.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NASSIRIYAH, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA15Q4YGMPCYZ3GDJUXT2WGT6LQ
- Story Text: Portuguese troops have arrived in the southern Iraqi
city Nassiriya.
A 131-Portuguese police cotingent started to arrive
on Monday (November 17) in the southern Iraqi city of
Nassiriya, where a huge explosion ripped through the
Italian military police base last week that was to be their
initial destination.
The deadly blast, the first to cause casualties among
Italian troops since they joined the occupying forces in
Iraq in June, sparked calls on the government of Prime
Minister Durao Barroso to postpone the mission to Iraq, as
it had already done on three previous occasions.
The contingent was deployed at the White Horse base in
Nassiriya, roughly 400 kilometres northwest of Basra.
Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland have vowed to keep
their 6,000 troops in Iraq as part of the US-led coalition
despite the deaths of 23 people in last week's attack on
Italian forces.
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