Eurocorps to take over ISAF command in August

Kellanved

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Thu May-13-04 04:35 PM
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Eurocorps to take over ISAF command in August

Eurocorps will take over command of NATO-run international peacekeepers in the Afghan capital Kabul in August, the head of the five-nation military force said.
Eurocorps will take control of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), currently under Canadian command, for six months, General Jean-Louis Py said late on Wednesday.

"We will thus fulfill our vocation of being a rapid European reaction force, at the service of NATO, for this operation to secure and rebuild Afghanistan in support of the Afghan government," Py said in a speech at a reception in Strasbourg, eastern France, where Eurocorps is based.

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TrogL

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Thu May-13-04 04:57 PM
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1. That will free up the Canadian contingent

so they can regroup in time to step in when the US loses control of Iraq.

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Spazito

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Thu May-13-04 05:01 PM
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2. Yeah, that is my fear...

but, NATO will not make a decision until AFTER Nov so hopefully there will be a change of admin in the US as a beginning.

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