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BAGHDAD — The departure of 2,000 Georgian soldiers leaves a question mark over checkpoints along smuggling routes near the Iranian border, forcing the U.S. to shuffle units to fill the vacuum.
Three Georgian checkpoints on highways surrounding the area’s main city of Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, were empty Monday.
But many Iraqis aren’t sorry to see the Georgians go. They say the Georgians were rude, disrespectful and ineffective.
