British troops shift at US request
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Heavily armored, elite British troops will move closer to Baghdad, allowing US forces to redeploy and ratchet up operations against militants in Falluja and other rebellion-stoked cities.
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The British government agreed on Thursday to a US request to redeploy British troops in Iraq to relieve American forces, despite angry objections from some lawmakers, who fear a major increase in British ...
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Britain agreed Thursday to meet a U.S. request for British troops to be moved into volatile central Iraq, a proposal that has met strong opposition within the governing Labour Party.
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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.
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Britain is expected Wednesday to grant a US request to move forces north, near Baghdad.
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A battle group of British troops in southern Iraq started to move northwards on a US-requested mission to more dangerous areas nearer Baghdad, an AFP reporter said.
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Britain will announce later whether it has agreed to a US request to send hundreds of its troops to relieve American forces in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman said, a move widely expected to go ahead.
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Britain is considering moving some of its troops in Iraq outside their normal area of operations in order to help bolster the American antiterrorist offensive, the British defense secretary, Geoff Hoon, said today.
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America has requested the assistance of UK troops in Iraq, which would involve British soldiers operating outside the UK-controlled southern sector of Iraq, the defence secretary confirmed today.
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It makes military sense for the UK to accept a US request  for troops south of Baghdad, says the top British soldier in Iraq.
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LONDON (CBS) Britain agreed Thursday to meet a US request for British troops to be moved into volatile central Iraq, a proposal that has met strong opposition within the governing Labor Party.
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LONDON - Hundreds of British troops returned to their base in southern Iraq yesterday, ending a monthlong deployment requested by the United States for an offensive in a restive region near Baghdad.
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Some 750 British troops could be deployed in previously US-patrolled hotspots just south of Baghdad as their American counterparts are sent to take part in a major offensive in rebel-held Fallujah, The Times reports.
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Britain is considering a U.S. request to  move troops into more potentially dangerous areas of Iraq, a  politically charged move which has re-ignited anger over Prime  Minister Tony Blair's support for the war.
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British troops will be moved to central Iraq in response to a US request, the defence secretary announces.
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The government is considering a US request to move troops into more potentially dangerous areas of Iraq, a politically charged move which has re-ignited anger over Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s support for the war.
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British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon told the British Parliament on Thursday that the government has agreed to a US request to redeploy British troops in Iraq to relieve American forces.