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U.S. Troops to Stay Longer in Iraq
(Nadim Ladki, Reuters, July 15, 2003)
The U.S. military announced thousands of key soldiers would be staying in Iraq indefinitely even as the number of American combat deaths neared the 1991 Gulf War total. . . . two former U.N. weapons inspectors kept up the pressure, with one accusing Bush of going to war based on "a lie." . . . In an abrupt about-face, the U.S. military said Monday thousands of troops from the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) would stay in Iraq until further notice instead of returning by September in line with an announcement only last week. . . . The division has already had a protracted stay in Iraq since it was the first American unit to enter Baghdad during the war. . . . A U.S. soldier was killed in a Baghdad ambush Monday, bringing the death toll of U.S. troops killed in hostile action since U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq on March 20 to 146, one less than the 1991 war over Kuwait. . . . Thirty-two U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Bush declared major combat over on May 1. . . . The growing death toll has intensified pressure on the Bush administration to defend itself against charges that it misled the public by using dubious intelligence to justify the war. . . . An Israeli diplomatic source, speaking during a visit to London by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, leapt to Bush's defense, saying Israel and Britain had reached the conclusion Iraq had weapons of mass destruction separately from Washington. . . . "These three countries independently reached the same understanding of the potential dangers....It is hard to believe all those forces reached the same conclusion (without it being true)," the source said. . . . Former U.N. arms inspectors Scott Ritter and Hans Blix, meanwhile, continued to dispute Bush's version of events. . . . "The entire case the Bush administration made against Iraq is a lie," Ritter told reporters at U.N. headquarters, while Blix told Denmark's Politiken daily Washington, London and their allies had ignored his advice on Iraq's banned weapons. . . . Underlining the security threats in postwar Iraq, two previously unknown Iraqi groups Tuesday warned countries against sending troops to the occupied country. . . . The U.S. military is braced for a surge in attacks this week to coincide with anniversaries linked to Saddam, his Baath Party and Iraqi nationalism.

posted by LoZo 4:30 PM