Word: samawah
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DAHUK NINEVEH ARBIL SULAYMANIYAH TA'MIM NAJAF WASIT DIYALA MUTHANNA SALAHADDIN ANBAR QADISYAH KARBALA BABIL MAYSAN DHIQAR BASRA Kirkuk Mosul Arbil Nasiriyah Baqubah Najaf Sulaymaniyah Karbala Hillah Samarra Diwaniyah Fallujah Ramadi Tikrit Tall 'Afar Kut Samawah Faisaliya Basra Amarah...
...Cambodia and East Timor. New laws were passed to allow the missions, and the troops never fought: they built roads, water purification systems, and medical clinics. Last year, Tokyo sent 600 troops to Iraq to support Bush's Coalition of the Willing, although they are based in relatively placid Samawah and are protected by Australian and Dutch contingents. In Japan, this is referred to as a process of becoming a "normal" country?one that isn't just focused on manufacturing and corporate profits, or utterly dependent for its safety and diplomacy on its big brother...
...Baghdad. Bodies believed to belong to Hashida and an Iraqi translator were found in the car; Ogawa escaped the vehicle but is thought to have been captured by the attackers and shot to death. The two were returning from a visit to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces camp in Samawah...
...hostage crisis became public, the Japanese government vigorously rejected pulling out its soldiers. For Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, keeping the troops in Iraq is in part a matter of pride. The 550 members of the country's Ground Self-Defense Force in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah are the first Japanese soldiers to serve in a full-fledged combat zone since the end of World War II, after which the defeated nation signed a peace constitution forbidding an offensive military. Beyond fixing water-purification plants, the Japanese soldiers are emblems of a country whose leader is determined to normalize...
...Disconcerting Duty With your article on the deployment in Iraq of soldiers from Asian countries [Feb. 16], you included a photo of a Japanese soldier in full combat gear on patrol in the southern town of Samawah. You noted that Samawah is not an area of heavy Iraqi resistance, so I found the soldier's attire disquieting. I would rather have seen him wearing a T shirt and jeans while building a school and surrounded by smiling Iraqi children than ready for battle. Tetsuro Umeji Kudamatsu City, Japan...