This has been particularly true since August 1989 when then Lieutenant General Shal was the deputy commanderinchief of the U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army. During that assignment. General Shali commanded the Combined Task Force Provide Comfort that provided humanitarian assistance to the Kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq. That very difficult operation. which involved providing assistance to between 500 and 700.000 Iraqi Kurds who had taken to the mountains and coaxing them back down to resettle their towns and villages. saved tens of thousands of lives. From August 1991 to June 1992. then Lieutenant General Shal served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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