"They viewed our arrival as their liberation," said Lieutenant Colonel Chris Woodbridge, commander of the Marine battalion responsible for Najaf since April. "We've certainly done everything we can to keep the people in that mindset."
The 1,000-strong force of Spanish, Honduran and Salvadoran troops forms part of a Polish-led division which took over responsibility for the rest of the Marines' sector of south-central Iraq at the beginning of this month.
NON-UN-ilateral, heroic allies, ping!
Thanks, Tonkin!
If you want on or off my PRO-coalition ping list, please Freepmail me. Warning: it is a high volume ping list on good days. (Most days are good days). All links are added to my homepage, link above.
