AP - Iraq’s foreign minister said Monday a premature pullout of U.S. troops could send the country and region spiraling into chaos and called a U.S. Senate proposal to divide Iraq into three regions well-intentioned but a bad idea.
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AP - Britain’s prime minister announced plans Tuesday to withdraw more than 1,000 troops from Iraq by year’s end, and Iraq said it will take over security from British forces in the southern Basra province within two months.
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AFP - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced in Baghdad on Tuesday that 1,000 British troops could be home from Iraq by Christmas and Iraqi forces could take control of Basra within two months.
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Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
announced on Tuesday that 500 more soldiers would be home from
Iraq by the end of the year, fuelling speculation he may soon
call a national election.
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AFP - The private security firm Blackwater USA has been involved in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, according to a US Congress report that depicts the company's employees as dangerously out of control.
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AP - The founder of Blackwater USA says he is looking forward to telling his side of the story to members of Congress who labeled his private security firm an out-of-control outfit indifferent to Iraqi civilian casualties.
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Reuters - Most Americans oppose fully funding
President George W. Bush's $190 billion request to fight the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while a majority supports
expanding a children's health care program he has threatened to
veto, a Washington Post-ABC News poll shows.
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Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama, accused by rival Hillary Clinton of lacking the
experience to be president, fights back on Tuesday with a
speech highlighting his differences with her on Iraq.
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AFP - Iraq's southern province of Basra could be handed over by British forces to Iraqi control within two months, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday.
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AFP - Up to 1,000 British troops could be withdrawn from Iraq by Christmas, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told reporters in Baghdad on Tuesday.
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