Britain&#39;s Black Watch Back in Basra, Will Leave Iraq This Month
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Britain&#39;s Black Watch regiment, deployed to back up US forces outside Baghdad since the end of October, has returned to its base in Basra in southern Iraq, said a UK defense ministry spokesman.
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Several British newspapers and the British Broadcasting Corp. have reported that London is considering sending 600 soldiers from the Black Watch regiment in relatively peaceful Basra to bolster U.S. operations ...
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BLACK Watch soldiers were on their way to Iraq&#39;s worst killing fields last night - and the Scots Guards could follow them. Britain&#39;s top general hinted yesterday that UK troops could be based in high-risk areas around Baghdad until well into next year.
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BASRA, Iraq - British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra last night in another step toward handing over the province to Iraqi control and preparing for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.
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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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Hundreds of British troops returned to their base in southern Iraq Saturday, ending a monthlong deployment in a restive region near Baghdad that the United States had requested to help back up U.S. forces in new offensives against insurgents.
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LONDON, Sept. 3 -- British troops completed a withdrawal from downtown Basra on Monday, moving to an airport outside the city, their last base in Iraq. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the move part of a British strategy to shift from combat to an "overwatch" role.
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Britain&#39;s Defense Secretary Geoffrey Hoon leaves No. 10 Downing Street, London Thursday Oct. 21, 2004 after attending a cabinet meeting where they discussed the deployment of 650 soldiers of the Black Watch to a US-controlled sector in Iraq.
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Black Watch soldiers have held their last church service at their base near Basra in Iraq, before their move north. The battalion is getting its weapons, ammunition and Warrior armoured vehicles ready for the move to an area under American command.
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Around 350 British troops are to return to the UK from southern Iraq four months early.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain will transfer responsibility for security in Basra province to Iraqi forces on Sunday, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of the southern part of Iraq.
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UK forces are to hand back control of security in Basra province to Iraq, four-and-a-half years after the invasion.
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A British regiment of 850 soldiers deployed to back up US forces outside Baghdad since the end of October has returned to its base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the defense ministry said.
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BLACK Watch troops returned to the relative safety of Basra yesterday after a controversial month-long mission in Iraqâs &quot;triangle of death&quot;, during which five of their comrades died.
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British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon visited troops in southern Iraq, rendezvousing with Scotland's Black Watch battalion, just back from a dangerous mission and heading home to an uncertain future.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain handed over security on Sunday to Iraqi forces in the last of four provinces it once patrolled, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of southern Iraq.
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LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported.Comment