Britain agrees to US request for troop redeployment
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Britain agreed Thursday to meet a US request to move British troops into volatile central Iraq to free up American forces for a stepped-up assault on insurgents, a proposal that has met strong opposition within the governing Labour Party.
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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 cabinet is expected to agree in principle today to a request from George Bush&#39;s military commanders for British troops to be redeployed to the so-called &quot;triangle of death&quot; near Baghdad.
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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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American interceptor missiles are to be stationed on British soil after Tony Blair agreed a secret deal with the United States, it has been reported.
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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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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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Britain was due on Monday to announce that it had received a US request to move some of its troops in Iraq into restive, US-held areas, a move opponents warned could be seen as a pre-election stunt to assist President George W. Bush.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will on Wednesday announce a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops were arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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In a step fraught with risks for Prime Minister Tony Blair ( search ), Britain agreed Thursday to send 850 of its soldiers from relatively peaceful southern Iraq to a volatile area near Baghdad, freeing U.S. ...
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With the insurgency in Iraq showing no signs of abating as election day nears, the British government agreed to a US request to redeploy 850 crack troops to a volatile area to the west of Baghdad.
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LONDON  - Britain was due to announce Monday that it had received a US request to redeploy some of its troops in Iraq into restive, US-held areas, a move critics warned could be seen as a pre-election ploy to assist President George W. Bush.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will  on Wednesday announce a timetable for the withdrawal of British  troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops  are arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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LONDON, OCTOBER 21: Britain agreed on Thursday to send troops to dangerous areas near Baghdad, a politically perilous step for Tony Blair who could face a sharp backlash if casualty rates start rising.
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Responding to a US request, Britain agreed yesterday to transfer 850 troops from relatively calm southern Iraq into a stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency near Baghdad.
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Britain said on Wednesday it would begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, triggering a new political standoff in Washington over U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to deploy thousands of extra U.S. soldiers.