First Black Watch troops return
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An advance section of the Black Watch  returns from Iraq ahead of the rest of the battle group, the BBC learns.
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Britain&#39;s 850-strong Black Watch battle group has pulled out of Camp Dogwood in Iraq and returned to its base in Basra, the BBC reported Saturday.
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The Black Watch regiment has returned to its base in Basra in southern Iraq after a month-long mission standing in for US troops in a more violent part of the country, the Ministry of Defence says.
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Hundreds of British soldiers are preparing today to move to central Iraq to support US troops. An 850-strong group from the Black Watch will be deployed to the area
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Britain&#39;s Black Watch regiment, deployed to back up US forces outside Baghdad since the end of October, has returned to its base in Basra in southern Iraq, said a UK defense ministry spokesman.
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Senior military sources tell the BBC that Black Watch troops could be flying home earlier than expected.
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THE decision to send Black Watch troops into Iraqâs âtriangle of deathâ followed requests by British military chiefs to take over a US-controlled area.
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Black Watch troops have arrived at their new base south of Baghdad, the Ministry of Defence announced. The soldiers are relieving US forces who are expected to mount an all-out assault on the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
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British troops led by the Black Watch are spending a second day travelling towards central Iraq.
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BRITAINâS military forces have had less than ten days to assess the risks of sending The Black Watch battle group to fill in for US Marines south of Baghdad, it was confirmed yesterday.
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American troops have begun attacking the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the operation which required the Black Watch to be redeployed. On Thursday, just days after the regiment moved from its base in Basra, three soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing.
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FOR six months, they have known nothing but the fog of war. The mist was still lingering on Salisbury Plain yesterday morning, but the men of the Black Watch were home.
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Black Watch troops have spent their first day off the front line and are thinking ahead to Christmas at home. The troops returned to Basra after their controversial month-long mission to Camp Dogwood near the Sunni &quot;Triangle of Death&quot;.
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Politics: 29 November 2004, Monday. The first group of the Bulgarian unit to Iraq returned to Sofia safe and sound on November 28.
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British troops today handed over responsibilty for security in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, a major landmark in the scaling-back of the foreign military presence nearly five years on from the U.S.-led invasion. "As you step up, we step back," British commander, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns, told Iraqi leaders.
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When Edmund Gulvin first joined the Black Watch regiment, he was a 6-year-old "powder monkey." He is now a rifleman and hopes to make sergeant one day &#151; if he manages to make it through the Napoleonic Wars.
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Some 200 soldiers from the Black Watch regiment arrived back in Britain after spending a month deployed in one of the most violent areas of Iraq.