Britain's Iraq Withdrawal

British military forces started withdrawing the first batch of its remaining 4,000 combat troops from Iraq on Tuesday (March 31) six years after helping to topple Saddam Hussein as Washington's main ally in the U.S.-led invasion. The phased withdrawal of troops stationed in the southern city of Basra is due to be completed by the end of July. A residual presence of a few hundred personnel w...

MediaScrape | March 31, 2009

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