Mongolians to join up with Zaytun Division

Guess who’ll be working together to guard a UN aid building in Arbil:

Mongolian soldiers are to provide security alongside South Korean soldiers for officials working in a UN building to be built near South Korea’s base camp in Iraq, U.S. military sources said yesterday. The Mongolian soldiers are expected to guard the officials, while South Korean forces will guard the outer perimeter.

The Mongolians will be stationed inside the Korean “Zaytun” base for security purposes. Construction of the UN building will be completed at the end of September.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on July 18, 2005 at 3:28 am, filed under East and Central Asia, Mongolia. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

7 Comments

  1. Mark
    Posted July 18, 2005 at 8:26 am | Permalink

    Whoa…guarding a UN building in Irbil…that’s tough. Will they be able to endure?

  2. dda
    Posted July 18, 2005 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    Does it mean they will actually have to get out of their hiding hole base?

    Wow…

  3. kimbob
    Posted July 19, 2005 at 12:19 am | Permalink

    Yes, seriously, Kushibo.. how come nobody mentions the fact, it’s the Korean government that is hamstringing the unit, to avoid casualty and thereby avoiding a political fallout? Instead it’s fashionable to paint the Koreans as cowards hiding out in the desert.

  4. non korean
    Posted July 19, 2005 at 12:56 am | Permalink

    Wow in charge of the outer perimeter. Sounds like South Korea will have to hire more Kurds in order to have an outer outer perimeter protecting the Korean outer perimeter. Good to see SK doing something. Good to see the UN getting back in Iraq after they pulled everyone out when their headquarters was struck by terrorists-uhhhh insurgents.

  5. Kushibo
    Posted July 19, 2005 at 10:12 am | Permalink

    Mark wrote:Whoa?€?guarding a UN building in Irbil?€?that?€™s tough.Yeah, it can be.

  6. virtual wonderer
    Posted July 20, 2005 at 6:02 am | Permalink

    I think it’s human nature to gloss over the details regardless of political affiliation.

  7. nulji
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 5:11 pm | Permalink

    ‘whoa, guarding the un building, that’s tough.’ sissy

    must have been tough for you to write that all snug here in america. zaytun doing more than you, right?

    ‘do you think it will bring them out of their hiding place?’ mangirl

    will it bring you out of yours? zaytun doing more than you, right?

    ‘wow, the koreans will have to hire more kurds to protect them.’ she-man

    can they hire you? zaytun doing more than you, right?

    wimps talk shit when they have no price to pay. if you are under 39, you can join the now desperate military. why not put your patriotism where your guts are? oh, i forgot, guys like you don’t have any guts.

    but ya got a mouth.

    nulji

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