Iraq: US Military begins flying Georgian troops home

A senior US Military official says the Americans have begun flying Georgian troops home from Iraq

after they requested help with transportation.

Georgia has called its 2,000 troops home from Iraq to help in the fighting against Russia in the breakaway province of South Ossetia and asked the US Military to help transport them. The official says that the US Military has agreed to their request and "Some flights have already begun." (AP)