THE CAST OF 'OCEAN'S ELEVEN' BOOSTS THE MORALE OF US TROOPS

December 9, 2001Dec 9, 2001, 11:00 PM GMT

The cast of Ocean’s Eleven, the movie which knocked Harry Potter off the top of the US box office charts over the weekend, has been in Europe to boost the morale of troops involved in the fight against terrorism. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and Andy Garcia, all of whom star in the remake of Ocean’s Eleven, chatted and posed with American servicemen at the Incirlik air base in Turkey last Friday.

The Hollywood quintet – some of Tinseltown’s biggest names – visited an American high school on the base, as well as chatting with Turkish soldiers and in return Julia and her boys were presented with authentic flight jackets personalised with their names. The air base serves as the launching point for patrol missions over northern Iraq and is a transport hub for the war in Afghanistan.

They are not the first stars to be giving US soldiers a boost – last week, Mariah Carey sang for UN peacekeepers in Kosovo, and MTV has staged a Christmas concert for troops, starring Jennifer Lopez, Kid Rock and rapper Ja Rule.

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Andy Garcia are all part of the team that has knocked Harry Potter off the top of the box office charts in the US

The cast of the movie gave US servicemen a morale boost when they visited them at their Turkish air base

The movie's only female star gets the jokey billing: "And Introducing Julia Roberts" for the film lensed by her buddy Steven Soderbergh

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