IRAQ: LAST GROUP OF PHILIPPINE TROOPS LEAVE IRAQ.

Record ID: 646835

  • Title: IRAQ: LAST GROUP OF PHILIPPINE TROOPS LEAVE IRAQ.
  • Date: 19th July 2004
  • Summary: (W5) SAFWAN, SOUTHERN BORDER, IRAQ (JULY 19, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. GV/GV/PAN/CU: CARS LINED UP AT BORDER WITH KUWAIT; MORE OF WHITE VEHICLES; FILIPINO TROOPS GIVING THUMBS UP AS THEIR VEHICLES PASS (9 SHOTS) 1.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd August 2004 13:00
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  • Location: SAFWAN, IRAQ'S SOUTHERN BORDER,IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA7NW9NAT5XQDLRCYYIAYB9HMM3
  • Story Text: The last group of Filipino troops left Iraq ahead of
    schedule, in a move Manila hopes will appease the
    kidnappers of a Fillipino hostage.



    The last group of Philippine troops to leave
    Iraq arrived in Kuwait on Monday (July 19), in a move
    Manila hopes will appease the Iraq kidnappers of Filipino
    hostage Angelo de la Cruz.

    A Philippine embassy official told Reuters the 34
    soldiers joined 11 who arrived in Kuwait on Friday. The
    Philippines was due to withdraw its soldiers from Iraq on
    August 20 but advanced the date to satisfy the kidnappers
    of de la Cruz, threatened with beheading unless his country
    pulled its humanitarian contingent out of Iraq.


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