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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (85611)	3/24/2003 10:09:21 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I like hitting all my news sites briefly - for example, I just saw on the Kyrgyzstan news site that Korea is considering moving troops from Kyrgyzstan to Iraq - which I assumed meant South Korea since Kyrgyzstan is part of the coalition - so checking the Korea Times reveals that the South Korean parliament is considering sending non-combatant troops (construction specialists and medical specialists) to Iraq, and this is likely to pass. kabar.kg times.hankooki.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (85611)	3/24/2003 10:17:25 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here's another interesting factoid - from a Georgian news source - "Georgian Parliament voted 138 votes to 1 to ratify the US- Georgian military agreement on March 21, thus allowing the US government to occupy mutually agreed territories and buildings in Georgia for use by the US administration’s civilian and military personnel, transport vehicles, vessels and aircraft." The agreement will allow us to build military bases and airfields. Obviously a way of getting around the Turks, but at the same time, spiting Putin, who isn't at all happy about the US military in their "sphere of influence." civil.ge, Schevardnadze has allowed us to fly surveillance aircraft over Georgia, and Putin doesn't like that, either. civil.ge, civil.ge,