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Independent: Blair to announce Iraq withdrawl
Independent: Blair to announce withdrawal of British troops from Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2290119.ece
Blair
to announce withdrawal of British troops from Iraq
By
Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
Published: 21
February 2007
The number of British troops in Iraq will be almost halved by the end of the year, Tony Blair will announce today.
The Prime Minister will tell MPs that 1,500 of the 7,000 UK servicemen and women in southern Iraq are due to return within two months. A further 1,500 are expected to pull out by Christmas as responsibility for maintaining order in and around Basra is transferred to Iraqi security forces. Whitehall sources were playing down suggestions that all British troops will be out by the end of 2008. But they added that the withdrawal could be reversed if conditions deteriorate...
Full article http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2290119.ece
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