[...]The United States plans to set up an international military force in three regions of Iraq, with Poland, Britain and the United States each controlling a zone, U.S. officials said. They said Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ukraine and Bulgaria would provide troops.

Said Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewiczs: "This is a fresh responsibility for my country, but we are ready to share it."

In Poland, officials said they expected to send no more than 2,000 troops to a zone in the north of Iraq, and were looking to finance the mission with the help of other nations.[...]