Thousands of German-based US troops en route to Iraq: daily
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, March 27, IRNA
Germany-US-Iraq
Around 3,800 German-based US soldiers were to leave Thursday afternoon for war-stricken Iraq, the daily junge Welt newspaper reported.
The 2nd brigade of the 1st tank division, deployed at the Baumholder US military base in southwestern Germany, was reportedly on its way to Iraq for a 15-month mission.
The American troops from Baumholder, some of whom had been repeatedly stationed in Iraq before, will be based "somewhere south of Baghdad," according to junge Welt.
Tens of thousands of US troops from Germany have been sent to take part in American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past six years.
Germany is also a major logistics center for global US military and so called 'anti-terror' operations.
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