IRAQ: THAI TROOPS BEING WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ

Record ID: 646847

  • Title: IRAQ: THAI TROOPS BEING WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
  • Date: 27th August 2004
  • Summary: (U4) SAFWAN, IRAQ'S SOUTHERN BORDER POINT WITH KUWAIT, IRAQ (AUGUST 27, 2004)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF VEHICLES CARRYING THAI TROOPS SLOWING DOWN AS THEY APPROACH BORDER, CHILDREN THROWING PLASTIC IN ROAD TO MAKE VEHICLES SLOW DOWN 0.36 2. SLV MILITARY VEHICLES AND AMBULANCE HEADING TOWARD BORDER CROSSING 0.48 3. VARIOUS OF THREE BUSES CARRYING THEIR TROOPS CROSSING INTO KUWAIT FROM SAFWAN BORDER CROSSING POINT 1.09 4. VARIOUS THAI FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE AND OTHER MILITARY VEHICLES CARRYING TROOPS TO BORDER 1.16 5. SLV THAI TROOPS CONVOY CROSSING SAFWAN/ KUWAIT FLAG AT BORDER POINT 1.33 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: SAFWAN, BASRA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAENBDRPKIQJJG7EXLYBMUREBT7
  • Story Text: Thai troops start pulling out from Iraq.




    Thailand's small contingent of troops in Iraq
    started leaving for neighbouring Kuwait on Friday (August
    27).

    According to official sources the troops are expected
    to finish their withdrawal within four days ending a
    controversial year-long posting.

    The contingent of engineers and medics started pulling
    out on Thursday (August 26) from their camp near the
    central Shiite holy city of Kerbala and is expected to
    return to Thailand by September 20.

    The troops' heavy equipment was moved out last month.

    The Thai contingent has hardly left camp since April
    after it was ordered to hunker down because of rising
    violence across the country.

    Thailand sent a contingent of 451 troops but two were
    killed in a car bombing in December in Kerbala. Thailand
    remained neutral during the US-led invasion.

    The withdrawal came despite a request from UN Secretary
    General Kofi Annan last month for the Thais to delay their
    departure because of the persisting security crisis in
    Iraq.

    jrc/



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