Australia to deploy 1,300 troops to East Timor
25/05/2006 - 11:22:41Australia will send 1,300 troops to violence-hit East Timor immediately, Prime Minister John Howard said today.
Howard said the situation in East Timor had deteriorated significantly since he announced the deployment of 130 commandos to the troubled island nation who had secured the airfield earlier today.
“Given the deterioration, we will go ahead without any conditionality with the full deployment and the 1,300 will be in place in a very short order,” Howard said.
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