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Local October 9, 2012 | 10:18 am
Ex military chief defends Iraq troop deployment
Santo Domingo.- The deployment of Dominican troops to the war in Iraq was a political decision by then president Hipolito Mejia, as an attribute in the Constitution, said on Friday Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez, the Armed Forces Minister at that time.
He said Mejia’s order to deploy troops to Iraq had a justification, and as head of the military he could only comply with an order from his Co... Read more
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