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Blair refuses to match US troop 'surge' in Iraq

Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit

Daily Mail (UK) - Jan 9, 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4272...

Blair refuses to match US troop 'surge' in Iraq

Blair will not send more troops to Iraq

Tony Blair will make clear this week that Britain is not going to send more
troops to Iraq even if the US pushes ahead with a "surge" of 20,000 extra
soldiers.

The Prime Minister will insist that the UK will stick to its own strategy
of gradually handing over to the Iraqi army, as it has been doing with
success in Basra and the south. [HUH? "Success?" and Basra IS in the
south.-NYTr]