UK to redeploy Iraq troops
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BRITAIN agreed today to send 850 British soldiers closer to Baghdad, freeing up US troops to step up attacks on insurgent strongholds.
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British troops in Iraq will be confined to a single base at Basra airport from next month when they hand over their last remaining base in the city to Iraqi forces.
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British troops are being redeployed to central Iraq after a request for assistance from the US. The BBC&#39;s Paul Wood describes what they can expect when they move into the &quot;triangle of death&quot; south of Baghdad.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government, risking criticism from lawmakers in the ruling Labour Party, said it will redeploy 850 troops now in southern Iraq to a region controlled by US forces.
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Britain agreed Thursday to meet a US request to move British troops into volatile central Iraq to free up American forces for a stepped-up assault on insurgents, a proposal that has met strong opposition within the governing Labour Party.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported.
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The British Army is to start pulling troops out of Iraq next month despite the deteriorating security situation in much of the country, The Observer has learnt.
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The British government says it&#39;ll honor the US request to send a battalion of troops to central Iraq. British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon says there&#39;s &quot;a compelling military operational justification&quot; for the redeployment.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce Wednesday a timetable for withdrawing hundreds of British troops from Iraq in the next few weeks, the British Broadcasting Corporation reports. TV and newspaper reports say 1,500 soldiers will leave Iraq within weeks and that 3,000 of Britain's contingent of 7,000 will leave by the end of the year.
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Nearly 800 British forces left their base in southern Iraq on Wednesday, heading north toward Baghdad to replace US troops who are expected to take part in an offensive against insurgent strongholds.
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British troops would be redeployed in Iraq to help stabilize the conflict-torn country, not boost President Bush's chances of re-election, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday as he tried to quell dissent among skeptical lawmakers.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday that thousands of his country's troops are to begin withdrawing from Iraq in weeks, media reports said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will on Wednesday announce a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops were arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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Britain said on Wednesday it would begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, triggering a new political standoff in Washington over U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to deploy thousands of extra U.S. soldiers.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday will announce a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported.Comment
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Britain&#39;s Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon arrives at Parliament in London, Monday Oct. 18, 2004, to give a statement about redeployment of British troops in Iraq.
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Britain agreed to a request from US commanders to redeploy 850 troops into a US-controlled section of Iraq, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said.