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UK's Brown says wants to cut troops in Iraq

Prime Minister Gordon Brown flew into Baghdad on Saturday and said he wanted to reduce British troop levels in Iraq, though he refused to set a timetable for their departure.

 

 

Britain contributed 45,000 troops to the 2003 US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein but only some 4,000 remain, based at an airport near Basra where they are training Iraqi security forces. (Reuters)

 


פרסום ראשון: 07.19.08, 19:08