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March 21, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030320/UBULGM/International/Idx

Ex-Enemy Helping U.S. Fight in Iraq

(Toronto Globe and Mail) The Americans have spent the past six weeks quickly and quietly transforming an abandoned Bulgarian summer camp into a base for hundreds of soldiers, and a neighboring airport into a launch pad for refuelling flights. Americans have never before operated in Bulgaria, which was a rigidly Communist country until 1990. In the U.S.'s newest and most unlikely military outpost, soldiers erected tent cities, installed generators and plumbing, prepared dossiers of top-secret battle plans, and tested communication links with command centers in Germany and Florida. A neighboring air-refuelling base is located a few hundred kilometers up the coast in Romania. It was not supposed to be this way. The U.S. planned to use Turkey as the supply base for its air war.

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