Britain planning Iraq pullout within a year, focus on Afghanistan
AFP, June, 2007
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LONDON (AFP) — British military chiefs are preparing to withdraw troops from Iraq within 12 months in order to concentrate on Afghanistan, The Sunday Telegraph said citing a senior military official.
A new timetable that would see a complete unilateral British withdrawal from Iraq by next May will be presented to incoming prime minister Gordon Brown within weeks of him taking over from Tony Blair on June 27, said the newspaper.
Under Blair, Britain has consistently maintained that any pullout of troops in Iraq should be dictated by events on the ground, not a timetable.
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But the broadsheet said Brown will be told by defence chiefs that Britain should withdraw from Iraq in "quick order" so as to bolster efforts to beat Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
"Britain is not physically capable of fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time," the unnamed senior military official told the weekly. ...
