GROM Colonel returns from Iraq

Colonel Roman Polko, the commander of the Polish GROM unit, has returned from Iraq after having spent three weeks there and plans to finish his post-graduate studies at the National Defense Academy. "There will be no dismissals, punishment or reprimand for the photo," declared Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski at a meeting with Polko. His statement concerns the photo of GROM soldiers and American troops that was taken at the port of Um Kasr under the U.S. flag, which was shown in the media last week. In one of them Polko was present. Szmajdzinski was discontent with the disclosure of information concerning the stationing of GROM and the military operations it was conducting, which the Defense Ministry was trying to veil. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) A.C.