Britain will leave southern Iraq insecure: lawmakers
AFP, December, 2007
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LONDON (AFP) — Britain has failed in its original aim of bringing security to southern Iraq, a parliamentary committee said Monday, expressing concern about continued violence there and across the country.
"The initial goal of UK forces in south-eastern Iraq was to establish the security necessary for the development of representative political institutions and for economic reconstruction," the House of Commons Defence Committee said.
"Although progress has been made, this goal remains unfulfilled."
Britain's contingent, based near the southern Iraqi port city of Basra, is expected to be cut by almost half to 2,500 by early next year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced in October.
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About 500 troops stationed at the Saddam Hussein-era Basra Palace in Basra itself withdrew in September after control of the city was handed over to Iraqi security forces.
A formal transition of power from Britain to Iraqi forces in Basra Province ...
