Polish troops set for stabilization role in Iraq

Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Eugeniusz Mleczak, announced yesterday that a group of 26 officers and non-commissioned officers from Szczecin who specialize in logistics, had been sent to Iraq. They are to join a platoon from Brodnica, already in Iraq, and together they will be responsible for creating a safe logistics infrastructure that will be used for landing and stationing multinational troops. The group, under the command of General Andrzej Tyskiewicz, will help stabilize the Polish zone in Iraq. Early July will see another group of 200 soldiers moving to Iraq, and in mid-July the main forces are to move in. This will include 1,800 soldiers from Ukraine, 500 from Bulgaria, 150 from Rumania and 85 miners from Slovakia, who will together help stabilize the situation in the Iraqi zone under the Polish command. (www.polskieradio.pl) A.K.