U.S. Request For British Redeployment Poses Dilemma For London
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The United States has made a controversial request to Britain to re-deploy some of its troops in Iraq.
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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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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
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The British cabinet is meeting this morning to consider a military report on the US&#39;s request to redeploy UK troops in Iraq to a more volatile area in the Baghdad region.
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LONDON - Britain may move some soldiers around inside Iraq, the UK defence minister said Monday, but denied the redeployment to more dangerous areas would be a show of support for US President George W. Bush.
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The British government is expected to aceed to a US request to send hundreds of its troops to a high-risk zone south of Baghdad, a move that risks infuriating Labour's own backbench MPs.
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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, England -- Britain has agreed to a US request to redeploy about 850 troops to central Iraq, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told lawmakers.
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The government faces pressure over plans to send UK troops to an area south of Baghdad, to assist US forces.
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Unable to calm the controversy over a US request to redeploy British troops in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing dissent from within his party ranks.
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Britain&#039;s Defence Secretary Des Browne said he was considering &amp;quot;as a matter of urgency&amp;quot; whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan, where six British soldiers have died in the last month.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government agreed Thursday to meet a US request and redeploy a battalion of 850 British troops into volatile central Iraq, despite strong opposition from lawmakers.
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LONDON: Britain is urging the United States to give a provisional timetable for the withdrawal of US-led forces from Iraq, the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday.
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The UK Ministry of Defence is discussing the possibility of British soldiers filling in behind US forces in Iraq. Should they redeploy?
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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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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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&#39;Just say no.&#39; That was the Guardian&#39;s considered advice to the UK government over the redeployment of British Black Watch troops from Basra to central Iraq to take the place of Americans who have to go off and fight insurgents.