El Salvador protests Iraq deployment

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El Salvador protests Iraq deployment


Tuesday 17 August 2004, 0:58 Makka Time, 21:58 GMT


380 Salvadoran troops expected to deploy in Iraq within days

El Salvador's main opposition party has accused the government of supporting an unjust war in Iraq and warned it would be to blame for any casualties.



Salvador Sanchez of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) told hundreds of protesters in the capital that sending scores of soldiers to Iraq was a "serious error".

"This government is responsible if anything happens to any citizen," he said.

Numerous Iraqi resistance groups have already issued a series of threats against El Salvador unless it pulls out of Iraq altogether.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E5D0A3AA-803D-4361-BEC5-7461AE3DB68F.htm