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USA to send more troops in Iraq

President Bush is to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq to help secure Baghdad's streets as part of a new strategy to tackle the conflict. The troop announcement brought immediate criticism from Democrats. British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett welcomed US plans, but said the UK has no plans to do the same. She said reports that 3,000 British troops would leave Iraq by May were "speculation".

11 Jan 2007
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