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Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/May-28/Six-Italian-peacekeepers-in-better-condition-Italy-seeks-to-reduce-size-of-unit.ashx#axzz1No9I

Italy Seeks to Trim Peacekeeping Unit

(Daily Star-Lebanon) Mohammad Zaatari - Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa told La Repubblica that while Italy "has no intention of abandoning Lebanon," he wanted to cut Rome's contribution to the UN force by more than a third. "At the moment we have 1,780 soldiers, but it's too many." Sources said the soldiers in the convoy of four vehicles were not wearing protective helmets or vests and the vehicles were not armored.

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