All British forces to be pulled out of Iraq within a year

[Demeter]

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1025422/All-British-forces-pulled-Iraq-year.html\

Last updated at 12:56 PM on 10th June 2008



All British forces are set to be pulled out of Iraq within a year...Plans for a phased withdrawal are back on track after a reduction in violence in Basra over recent months. Whitehall officials are now working on a new timetable for the move.


The pull-out of the remaining 4,000 troops serving in Iraq is sure to be seized on by Labour Ministers as proof that a line has finally been drawn under Tony Blair's biggest foreign policy disaster. The withdrawal is expected to be announced by the end of this year if the security situation remains positive - with the actual operation taking place sometime next spring.
At the peak of British military activity in Iraq in 2003 there were 26,000 soldiers deployed in the country as part of Operation Telic - as well as 4,000 marines, 5,000 sailors and 8,100 RAF personnel.



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[Tutonic]

1. Interesting. Didn't "Son of Cheney" Bush just about pee all over himself when

Gordon Brown promised to send 230 British soldiers into Afghanistan? Sounds like Bushie got played again.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. At last!