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For the time being the Bulgarian government is backing off its previously announced plan to consolidate at one spot all of its troops on mission in Afghanistan.
260 Bulgarian rangers came back overnight from their six-month service guarding the Kandahar Airport.
They were met at the Sofia Airport by the new Defense Minister, Gen. Anyu Angelov, who explained the consolidation of the troops seemed efficient with respect to logistics but then the government decided that it would be better to keep the risk “spread.”
Bulgarian troops are currently stations in Kabul and Kandahar, and a medical unit is in Herat; the medical team, however, is most likely going to be transferred to a hospital in Kandahar which is still under construction.
The Minister reminded the decision of the Bulgarian government to send 70 more rangers to Afghanistan after July 2010 bringing their total number to 600. He said the recent incident in which four Bulgarian soldiers were wounded in a Taliban rocket attack at the Kandahar Base was a matter of chance.
The Deputy Commander of the Bulgarian contingent in Afghanistan, who is in charge of the Kandahar detachment, Col. Angel Turmanov, said additional measures were taken to reinforce the quarters of the Bulgarian troops in the Kandahar Air Base with concrete facilities and sand bags.
Minister Angelov announced the Afghan Interior Minister had requested that Bulgaria help with the training of police officers, and that this training could take place in Bulgaria.
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