The Pentagon also identified four other brigades for deployment to Iraq late this year and in 2007, enough to maintain the U.S. force at about 130,000 troops for a year.
(AFP)
RFE/RL Iraq Report
RFE/RL Iraq Report
U.S. Marines on patrol in Iraq (AFP) July 27, 2006 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has extended the tours of nearly 4,000 US troops in Iraq for 120 days to help quell sectarian violence in Baghdad.
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