Brits Head To Iraq Danger Zone
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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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Some 800 British forces, accompanied by US Marines, began making their way toward Baghdad on Wednesday as part of a redeployment ahead of an expected coalition offensive against insurgent strongholds.
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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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British troops are preparing to depart Iraq's second city in the coming months, leaving behind an intra-Shi'ite power struggle
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The bulk of an 850-strong group of British troops are gathering near their new base in a US-controlled area of Iraq. Soldiers from the Black Watch regiment will join up with the first wave of their colleagues
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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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The deployment of British troops called in to support US forces in central Iraq has entered its second day. Soldiers from the Black Watch regiment stopped overnight in Nasiriyah and will continue to move through desert towards Iraq&#39;s &quot;triangle of death&quot;.
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The UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon says 850 British troops are to be sent to a US-controlled region of Iraq close to the capital.
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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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A battle group of British troops began to roll out of southern Iraq on a US-requested mission to deadlier areas near Baghdad in a major political gamble for Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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British troops leave the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Thursday, Oct 21, 2004. Britain said Thursday a battalion of British troops would be redeployed into volatile central Iraq, meeting a US request despite
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22 October 2004 -- Some 850 British troops have started preparations to redeploy from southern Iraq to outside of Baghdad, in response to a US request for help in stabilizing the country prior to elections planned for January 2005.
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LONDON - Britain is considering a request to move some of its troops into the US-controlled zone in Iraq, Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon told Parliament&#39;s lower chamber Monday.
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About 850 British troops in Iraq are moving north toward Baghdad from the city of Basra. The arrival of the British troops appears to further indicate an impending major ground assault west of Baghdad.
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British troops and armor rolled north  from Basra on Wednesday to take over a deadly area near Baghdad  and free up U.S. troops for a widely expected attack on the  Iraqi rebel-held city of Falluja.
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TONY EASTLEY: To Iraq now, where three British soldiers have been killed and a number of others injured in an ambush by insurgents.
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Hundreds of British soldiers have left southern Iraq for a mission closer to Baghdad to free up US forces for a possible assault on rebel-held Fallujah.