TBILISI (AFP) - Three hundred Georgian troops left for Iraq (news - web sites), nearly doubling the former Soviet republic's contingent there, as Tbilisi said it would soon dispatch another 500 soldiers. The 300 men left by plane from a military base in Georgia for Kuwait for deployment in Iraq, where they will replace the 157 Georgian soldiers now serving in the US-led coalition force. The two units from a batallion trained by US instructors are to undergo two weeks' more preparation at a US military base in Kuwait before starting a six-month mission in Baquba, 70 kilometres (44 miles)...