Blair says UK troops to stay in Iraq till job done
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said British troops would stay in Iraq "until the job is done" and pledged full support for the country's weak government during an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Sunday.
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Britain's Tony Blair forecast an upsurge  in violence in Iraq ahead of planned January elections but said  Wednesday he had not yet decided on a U.S. request for back-up  from UK troops.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair looked set on Wednesday to outline a timetable for British troops to start withdrawing from Iraq, with media reports saying 3,000 soldiers could be home by the end of the year.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged on Sunday to support Iraq's government as it battles instability underscored when gunmen carried out a mass kidnapping at a Red Crescent office in the capital.
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told MPs the deployment would last &quot;weeks rather than months&quot;, and that the troops would stay under British command.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country and the United States will send a team to Iraq to reassess the security situation there.
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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 are arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, making a surprise visit to Iraq today, met with British troops near Basra after talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad.
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LONDON: Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce that Britain will start to withdraw its troops from Iraq within weeks, media said.Comment
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LONDON, Feb. 21 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Wednesday that 1,600 British troops would return home from Iraq in the coming months and that a further 500 soldiers may be withdrawn by the end of summer.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that Britain must &quot;stand firm&quot; against a global terrorist threat amid news that three British soldiers had been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two main battlegrounds of the US-led war on terror.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said &amp;quot;significant numbers&amp;quot; of British troops could be withdrawn from Iraq within 18 months.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the redeployment of 850 crack British troops to a volatile area southwest of Baghdad was &quot;a limited operation for a limited period&quot;.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said  on Wednesday that Britain would reduce its troop levels in Iraq  by 1,600 over coming months, but its soldiers would stay in the  country into 2008 as long as they were wanted.
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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday that British troops would only be redeployed to the more volatile, US-controlled sector of Iraq if it was militarily justified.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair says the number of British troops in Iraq could be increased again if required.
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British troops in Iraq have an important job to do and there is no fixed timetable for their withdrawal, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, despite speculation that Britain will soon announce a major pullout.