UK sympathetic to US request to shift troops
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LONDON - Britain gave the strongest signal yet on Tuesday that it will agree to a United States request to move its troops in Iraq to support American military operations as pressure builds on Prime Minister Tony Blair to reject the overture.
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Whilst some may claim that the British are staunch allies of the United States (depite being having clearly different agendas on the World Stage), the recent request made to Britain for additional support, namely 600 troops from Black Watch to be moved North to Baghdad to help out the 130,000 US troops who want to move upto Fallujah, is being met by the British Parliament with what we might politely call some   hostility. As the Honourable member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (yes, it is as grim as it sounds), Geraldine Smith asks:    "I'm concerned about the timing. We've been asked by the Americans two weeks before their election to cover for their troops. Is this a ploy to allow Bush not to send more troops? If we made a decision to send troops tomorrow, it looks like we are stepping in to help out the President."
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The United States has asked Britain to redeploy hundreds of troops from southern Iraq, the Defense Ministry said Sunday amid reports the troops will move to the Baghdad area to back up Americans planning a major offensive against insurgents in Fallujah.
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A close ally of new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hinted at a change to Britain&#39;s relationship with the United States, saying a nation&#39;s strength should no longer be measured by military might.
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The government is "very sympathetic" to a U.S. request for British troops in southern Iraq to be moved closer to Baghdad to free up American forces for anti-insurgency operations, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tuesday.
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The British government is "very sympathetic" to a U.S. request for British troops in southern Iraq to be moved closer to Baghdad to free up American forces for anti-insurgency operations, Foreign Secretary Jack ...
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Reports that British troops based in the relatively calm south of Iraq could be redeployed under US command near strife-torn Baghdad drew a storm of criticism from opposition parties.
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Britain said it was considering a US request to move some of its troops in Iraq ( news - web sites ) from their base in the relatively peaceful south and into US-controlled areas, potentially placing them in ...
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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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The United States wants Britain to deploy troops in more volatile parts of Iraq, as a new offensive on insurgent-held Fallujah looms, reports from Britain said.
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Britain is expected Wednesday to grant a US request to move forces north, near Baghdad.
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LONDON British troops reportedly could end up filling in for US troops in Baghdad, in the event of a move against insurgents in other Iraqi cities.
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Britain has received a request from Washington to redeploy some of its troops in Iraq from their current base in the southern city of Basra into restive US-held areas but is still considering a response, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told parliament.
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LONDON - The British government is &quot;very sympathetic&quot; to a US request for British troops in southern Iraq to be moved closer to Baghdad to free up American forces for anti-insurgency operations, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tuesday.
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The United States has sought to put a positive angle on its closest ally Britain&#x2019;s plan to pull its 7,100 troops out of Iraq nearly four years after the war&#x2019;s start.Comment
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London - Britain agreed on Thursday to meet a United States request and redeploy a battalion of British troops into volatile central Iraq, despite strong opposition within the governing Labour Party.
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WASHINGTON, United States : An unusual US request for a British battalion to back up American troops in Iraq has shown the political constraints on the use of coalition forces even as an intensifying battle against insurgents is testing the US force there