 The troop was called Tarea Xatruch Battalion in honor of Xatruch.The group included 40 officials, 22 sub-officials, 21 technical staff and 287 soldiers.They left August 11 for Spain for a training period, and then to Nasariya, Karbala and Najaf in Iraq, where they joined 360 Salvadoran, 230 Nicaraguan, 300 Dominican, and 1,300 Spanish officials and soldiers.