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Saturday, March 11, 2006

8,000 desert during Iraq war


نار المقاومة العراقية ترغم 8 الاف جندي اميركي
على الفرار من الخدمة
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اعترفت وزارة الدفاع الاميركية بهرب حوالي 8 الاف جندي اميركي من الخدمة منذ العام الاول لاحتلال العراق. وقالت مجلة يو اس اي توداي الاميركية نقلا عن مصادر في البنتاغون ان السجلات المؤرخة منذ خريف 2003 تشير الى فرار 4454 جنديا و3454 عنصرا من جنود البحرية و1455 من المارينز و82 من سلاح الجو من الخدمة في جيش الاحتلال في العراق منذ شهر تشرين الاول من عام 2003 .
8,000 desert during Iraq war
By Bill Nichols, USA TODAY Tue Mar 7,
At least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. military have deserted since the
Pentagon records show, although the overall desertion rate has plunged since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
Since fall 2003, 4,387 Army soldiers, 3,454 Navy sailors and 82 Air Force personnel have deserted. The Marine Corps does not track the number of desertions each year but listed 1,455 Marines in desertion status last September, the end of fiscal 2005, says Capt. Jay Delarosa, a Marine Corps spokesman.
Desertion records are kept by fiscal year, so there are no figures from the beginning of the war in March 2003 until that fall.
Some lawyers who represent deserters say the war in Iraq is driving more soldiers to question their service and that the Pentagon is cracking down on deserters

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