Japan's main ASDF unit arrives in Kuwait on Iraq mission

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Japan's main ASDF unit arrives in Kuwait on Iraq mission

About 110 members of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) arrived in Kuwait on Jan. 23 morning to help US-led efforts to rebuild Iraq.

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About 110 members of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) arrived in Kuwait on Jan. 23 morning to help US-led efforts to rebuild Iraq.

According to NHK television, the main unit, which is to transport supplies to Iraq, followed ASDF advance teams which arrived in late December in Kuwait and Qatar as well as a Ground Self-Defense Force advance team which deployed earlier this month in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.

The ASDF unit is scheduled to start in February its task to airlift food, medicine and other supplies to Iraq, NHK said.

The members of the main unit left Japan Thursday on a Japanese government plane.

Japan plans to deploy approximately 1,000 members of the Self-Defense Forces on the Iraq rehabilitation mission under a special law enacted last July.

Source: Xinhua

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