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Czech Republic: Elite Antichemical Warfare Platoon To Be DeployedFrom Friday, November 2, 2001 issue.
The Czech Republic plans to deploy a 160-member antichemical platoon to aid the U.S.-led war against terrorism, Defense Minister Jaroslav Tvrdik announced yesterday. He said the platoon is part of a battalion of 300 troops that are to be deployed in response to a U.S. request, but he did not say where they would go.
Both Czech parliamentary chambers were expected to overwhelmingly approve the deployment, which will cost $810,000 per month, the Associated Press reported. The battalion could be ready within days. During the Gulf War, the then-Czechoslovakian antichemical unit was the only one to detect trace amounts of nerve gases in the Saudi desert (Associated Press, Nov. 1).
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