El Salvador may pull 'almost all' troops from Iraq [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

El Salvador may pull 'almost all' troops from Iraq
Wednesday Feb 6 12:00 AEDT

El Salvador, the only Latin American country which still has troops in Iraq, is prepared topull out most of its 280 soldiers there amid growing opposition at home to the US-led war.

"I believe the time is coming to pull out almost all of our troops," President Tony Saca said.

Saca was seeing off the 10th contingent of Salvadoran soldiers to serve in Iraq, but said that the next batch of troops could be reduced to a handful.

"I cannot talk of an 11th contingent," Saca said.

In August, El Salvador cut the size of its six-month contingents to Iraq to 280 soldiers from a previous level of 380.


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