Fed: Aust to send four more Black Hawks to East Timor

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: July 27, 2000 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

07-27-2000

Fed: Aust to send four more Black Hawks to East Timor

By Denis Peters

CANBERRA, July 27 AAP - Australia is to bolster security for its battalion of peacekeepers
in East Timor by sending four Black Hawk helicopters and an extra 100 troops.

Announcing the move, Defence Minister John Moore was less than enthusiastic about the
United Nations command in East Timor, calling it merely adequate....

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