Denmark has secretly airlifted about 200 translators and other Iraqi employees and their relatives out of Iraq to try to keep them from coming to harm after it withdraws its ground forces later this summer, the Danish government disclosed Friday.
The move was to protect interpreters and other employees, prime targets for Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias who accuse Iraqis who work for American-led forces here of being collaborators.
The last of three secret flights departed Friday before dawn with about 80 Iraqis on board, Jakob Winther, a Defense Ministry spokesman, told The Associated Press...
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