By empty (8/19/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A first group of 14 service personnel from Kazakhstan\'s KazBat peacekeeping battalion set out for Iraq on 19 August, with the rest of the 27-person contingent departing the following day. The group -- comprising military engineers, eight officers, and three interpreters -- is scheduled to remain in Iraq for six months. The group is to work on land-mine removal and water extraction.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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