(3)Advance GSDF team in Samawah

(3)Advance GSDF team in Samawah

SAMAWAH, Iraq - Local contractors bulldoze roads around a candidate lodging site for main Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) units in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah Jan. 24. An advance GSDF team plans to protest the construction, which it did not endorse.

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