Naval gazing.
This article reports on the training of Iraq's new Navy. The military outfit has only 800 service members and patrols only 20km of coastline. But the port of Umm Qasr is located here and is extremely important to the exportation of oil. A former member of Saddam Hussein's "Coastal Defense Force"...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 135; no. 4817; p. 17 |
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11/6/2006
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