IRAQ CONVOY ATTACKERS CAUGHT BY POLISH FORCES – POLISH PREMIER
Polish Radio 1, Poland
Nov 14 2006
[Announcer] Perpetrators of the attack on a convoy in Iraq, in which
a Polish soldier died, have been caught. This has been reported by
Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Sergeant Tomasz Murkowski, 30,
died on Friday to Saturday night in an attack near the locality of
Al-Kut. A Slovak soldier also died. Another Pole and an Armenian were
wounded. The perpetrators fired at the vehicle which was taking the
soldiers back to base.
The prime minister said all of the attackers were now in Polish
servicemen’s hands.
[Kaczynski] Four are being questioned. One has pleaded guilty. The
work of our services which deal with the Polish units’ security in
Iraq is good.
[Announcer] The head of government reported that pensions would be
paid to the families of soldiers killed in Iraq. Defence Minister
Radoslaw Sikorski added that injured soldiers would have priority in
medical care. They will also be exempted from paying for medicines.
President Lech Kaczynski and the head of MON [Ministry of National
Defence] will take part in Sergeant Murkowski’s funeral tomorrow.