almost five months have passed now since laina and his men arrived in mali. they spent weeks touring reconnaissance patrols and support work but they never fired a shot. and now it's time to return to germany. back home critics have complained that the mission in mali has not achieved much they say that germany has no business sending troops here. but these soldiers are here to carry out their orders even if they didn't agree with some of them. some of our orders were nonsense in fact a lot of them were we all wondered what we were doing here i certainly did because of all still every single one of you did your damn job and you did it well. on the gulf. news. and now after one hundred forty one days in mali lieutenant linna is on his way back to germany. because if you start the cycle i can definitely say that this mission changed me on this but i can't say how just yet it's not so i think i'll find out only after i get home and start interacting with people again that's going to start a space in their souls i. mean . it's two months mathias clara and their i

lieutenant laina the miracle worker you know the line. a. this is the bond as the air transport facility at cologne bourne airport after almost a year of planning training in practice lieutenant lin and his unit a starting their first overseas mission. he said on the eve of me to call i've known for some time what i'm getting into and now we're underway we've trained for this and i would say that i'm pretty relaxed right now that missiles launched from one. lane and his men will be in mali for at least four months. this is the city of galle in northern mali about ninety thousand people live here a rich mix of ethnic groups tribes and religions in two thousand and twelve two are agreeable is an islamist fighters occupied the city the rebels like to declare the region's independence from the rest of the country. in twenty thirteen the united nations sent peacekeeping troops to the region today more than fifteen thousand soldiers from nearly fifty countries are serving there about a thousand german troops are stationed at camp cast near the air

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