US hints at bigger Iraq pullout
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Defence Secretary Robert Gates hints that the US could withdraw thousands of troops from Iraq during 2008.
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Iraq&#39;s representative to the United Nations has said, in advance of an international conference on his country&#39;s future, that it is too early to discuss a US troop pullout.
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The Pentagon's closely guarded review of how to improve the situation in Iraq has outlined three basic options: Send in more troops, shrink the force but stay longer, or pull out, according to senior defense officials.
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Denmark was expected to announce plans to begin withdrawing its troops from Iraq at a news conference on Wednesday, Danish media reported.Comment
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Critics say a long-term US military presence may provoke greater Iraqi resistance of the 'occupier.'
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A US review of policy on Iraq will recommend a troop pullback and a new diplomatic offensive, reports say.
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The ministerâs comments suggested a longer U.S. commitment in Iraq than had previously been indicated.
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The United States may be able to reduce its troop levels in Iraq after the January elections if security improves and Iraqi government
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One day after President Bush announced a limited drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq by next summer, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that it might be possible to reduce U.S. forces there further over the course of next year, down to approximately 100,000 troops by the end of 2008.
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BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has pressed US Embassy officials in recent meetings to pull the Blackwater USA security firm out of Iraq even before the six-month deadline he initially set, a top aide to the Iraqi leader said yesterday.
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A US commander in Iraq warns against early troop withdrawals, despite growing calls for a pullout.
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The United States could begin withdrawing troops from northern Iraq in January, the commander of U.S. forces for the region said on Friday, as pressure mounts on the Bush administration to end the war.
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The U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has told President George W. Bush he wants to maintain heightened troop levels in Iraq well into next year but could accept the pullback of about 4,000 troops beginning in January, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
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The United States has said it may send more troops to Iraq to protect elections in January against violence if US commanders decide they are needed.
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A quick withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq may allow victorious Muslim extremists to exend their reach into other countries
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that he expected American troops to withdraw from Iraq within four years, but he cautioned that any final decision hinged on
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WASHINGTON -- The United States may be able to reduce its combat forces in Iraq by next spring if Iraq's own security forces continue to grow and improve, a senior American commander said yesterday.