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British troops face uncertainty in Iraq as government rejects draft agreement

Posted under Political News on Monday, 22 December 2008 by
The Iraqi government has placed the 41000 British troops stationed in the country in an uncertain situation by rejecting a draft agreement that required them to give the soldiers legal cover even after the end of the UN mandate at the end of the year. The decision of the Iraqi parliament to reject...
British troops face uncertainty in Iraq as government rejects draft agreement
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Pressure mounts on Gordon Brown to inquire into the costs of the Iraq war

Posted under Political News on Thursday, 18 December 2008 by
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that British troops would be pulled out of Iraq in July next year. In the six years that British troops have been operating in the country they have lost 178 troops and caused innumerable Iraqi casualties. As the country decides to make the final put...
Pressure mounts on Gordon Brown to inquire into the costs of the Iraq war
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