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To: lurqer who wrote (42506)	4/13/2004 2:59:34 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

About 10 Bulgarian soldiers ask to leave Iraq SOFIA (Reuters) - About 10 Bulgarian soldiers based in the flashpoint city of Kerbala in southern Iraq have asked if they can go home, officials said on Tuesday, the latest example of the troops' unhappiness with conditions in Iraq. On Monday, soldiers' parents appealed to President Georgi Parvanov to have Bulgaria's 450-strong battalion withdrawn from the city, where it came under repeated attack last week from militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. "Around 10 servicemen of the Bulgarian contingent in Kerbala have asked to be relieved," defence ministry spokeswoman Roumyana Strugarova said. The conditions facing the new NATO member's troops in Iraq have become a sensitive issue in this Balkan country since last week's attacks, but had already caused concern previously. More than 60 soldiers quit the battalion before it left home for Iraq to replace the original peacekeeping unit, although the government had increased the troops' Iraq pay by about one-third because of the risks of serving there. Five Bulgarian soldiers have been wounded in clashes since the start of April, and last December a truck bomb attack killed five and wounded 64. reuters.com