CANADA'S "OPEN SECRET": DEEP COMPLICITY IN THE IRAQ WAR

Richard Sanders,
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
World War 4 Report

A Canadian Brigadier General, Nicolas Matern, has just arrived in Baghdad. This former commander of Canada's Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorism unit is the deputy commander of the US 18th Airborne Corps and he now reports to Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin III, who leads the 170,000-strong Multi-National Corps—Iraq. Its primary task is to conduct "offensive operations to defeat remaining non-compliant forces."

Matern is the third Canadian Forces (CF) general to help lead a command group overseeing the US-led war in Iraq. His predecessor, CF Maj. Gen. Peter Devlin was the Deputy Commander General of the Multi-National Force—Iraq since December 2006.

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