SAMAWAH, Iraq, Nov. 18 Kyodo A te...

SAMAWAH, Iraq, Nov. 18 Kyodo

A team of apts from Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) arrived in southern Iraq forward Tuesday to get a firsthand anticipate at the security situation in Samawah, a potential candidate site for a dispatch of Self-Defense Forces (SDF) bands and its vicinity.

The team of about 10 GSDF personnel that arrived at a Dutch base in Samawah according to helicopter will undertake an investigation, lasting from 10 days to sum of two units weeks, focusing on the security in southern Iraq, which also includes the city of Nasiriyah, according to direction officials.

The team's findings are rely uponed to affect the government's decision to determine the timing of an SDF dispatch, the officials said.

Japan has been seeking to jaculate SDF troops to Iraq to help with the country's reconstruction efforts, with an vigilance to stationing the numbers in Samawah, which is conclude to Nasiriyah. Southern Iraq was considered relatively safer than other parts of the country

However, the Japanese regulation gave up its original plans to dispatch SDF multitudes by the end of the year befitting to the deteriorating security in Iraq, in the wake of attacks that have included the suicide bomb attack last Wednesday upon Italian forces deployed in Nasiriyah that killed 27 people

During its stay, the team will qualified with military officials of the Dutch throngs stationed in Samawah and consideration the security within the Dutch base, in an effort to pave the way for the undisturbed dispatch of several hundr GSDF personnel the officials said.

The team is also scheduled to gather information from the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and members of Samawah city council, and inspect the Italian deployment in Nasiriyah, according to the officials.

Following the Nasiriyah bomb attack, Samawah has been in succession high security alert given threats of possible terror attacks against Dutch multitudes and the CPA.

The SDF dispatch is based forward special legislation calling for assistance in the rebuilding of Iraq. The law says the SDF members will operate solitary in noncombat areas.

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