- PARIS (Kyodo via COMTEX)
-- One thousand and seven hundred U.S. soldiers have deserted their posts
in Iraq, with many of them failing to return to military duty after getting
permission to go back to the United States, according to the French weekly
magazine Le Canard Enchaine.
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- The magazine, known for its satires and exposes, said
the French intelligence agency obtained the information from what it described
an "American colleague."
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- Citing a senior French official posted in Washington,
the magazine also said that 7,000 U.S. soldiers have left Iraq allegedly
due to psychological troubles and other illnesses.
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- Some 2,200 others sustained serious injuries including
the loss of limbs, it said.
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