Fed: Australia to withdraw more troops from East Timor

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2006
Fed: Australia to withdraw more troops from East Timor

Army chief PETER LEAHY says Australia will be able to withdraw a substantial number
of troops from East Timor .. now the United Nations has agreed to a new mission in the
country.

Lieutenant General LEAHY has told ABC television .. Australia's been reducing its troop
numbers gradually over the past month .. and this is now likely to speed up.

But he says the army will make sure the remaining security forces in East Timor ..

can cope with the reduced Australian presence.





Australia currently has about 15-hundred soldiers and 200 police in the country.

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KEYWORD: TIMOR LEAHY (CANBERRA)

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