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Mar 29, 2011 | Posted by: roboblogger

Part time soldiers take up peace keeping mission

Full story: IcWales

TERRITORIAL Army soldiers are to be sent to Cyprus for a six-month tour of duty as UN peace-keepers. Around 50 soldiers from Wales will form part of a detachment of 300 part-time troops from 31 individual units on the Mediterranean island at the end of this month to prevent trouble between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

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Mar 29, 2011
 
why is this there isnt or hasnt been trouble between turks n greeeks other than the odd skirmish etc

my opinion is that its a waste of time and or someones upto something !!

why go to cyprus when theres half the world in kaos
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Mar 29, 2011
 
champion65 wrote:
why is this there isnt or hasnt been trouble between turks n greeeks other than the odd skirmish etc
my opinion is that its a waste of time and or someones upto something !!
why go to cyprus when theres half the world in kaos
"WHY GO TO CYPRUS" you ask above.......ya "why go to cyprus" and occupy it --------VERY good question

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mustbeARROGANCE wrote:
<quoted text>"WHY GO TO CYPRUS" you ask above.......ya "why go to cyprus" and occupy it --------VERY good question
i tell you good question

when you have a nationalist priests playing poloticians coup leaders and illegal terror organizations when you get mercenaries and junta men trying to bomb priest and visa versa when life begins to be too expendable and placed behind nationalistic and exclusive objectives and goals people feeling the fear

thats when you need an army to clean up

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champion65 wrote:
why is this there isnt or hasnt been trouble between turks n greeeks other than the odd skirmish etc
my opinion is that its a waste of time and or someones upto something !!
why go to cyprus when theres half the world in kaos
um, the weather is really great there this time of year, that's why

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Mar 30, 2011
 
There is no conflict in Cyprus since 1974.

No need to army in buffer zone of Cyprus.
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champion65 wrote:
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i tell you good question
when you have a nationalist priests playing poloticians coup leaders and illegal terror organizations when you get mercenaries and junta men trying to bomb priest and visa versa when life begins to be too expendable and placed behind nationalistic and exclusive objectives and goals people feeling the fear
thats when you need an army to clean up
kapish
arrogant champ,,,,,,,,nationalists are occupiors --well documented occupiors brits and turks forced turkish cypriots to attack greek cypriot civilians and block roads to succeed in division,,,,,,,,clean up' u say-- well ethniccleansing is not clean up' its nationalistic illegal activities(well documented) of divisiion carried out by brits and turks like the pogrom in istanbul,,,,,,,,,any wonder why the turks invadors killed almost 2 percent of cyprus's civilians in less than a month un heard of even in yugoslavia,,,,,,,,,,

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