Current Affairs Czech Army sends fresh contingent to Iraq as violence escalates in country
A ceremony took place at the National Memorial on Prague's Vitkov Hill on Tuesday as the latest Czech Army contingent - the tenth to date - prepared to leave for Iraq. The Czech soldiers, around a hundred in total, are stationed at a British base in Shaiba in the south of the country, where they have been training Iraqi police officers. As the soldiers bid goodbye to family and friends, I spoke to Major General Emil Pupis, director of the Czech Army's joint operations centre and deputy chief of staff; I began by asking him if many of the latest group had already served in Iraq.
Emil Pupis, photo: www.army.cz
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