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Article: ARAB-US RELATIONS - Dec 1 - US To Add To Troop Strength In Iraq.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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US Defence officials say the military will temporarily increase its troop strength in Iraq to about 150,000 from 138,000 to provide extra security for Iraqi elections set for Jan 30. The increase will be achieved by keeping thousands of US soldiers in Iraq for short-term extensions of current yearlong deployments even after their replacements arrive this month and in early January for a previously scheduled rotation, according to the officials, who asked not to be named. The move will include a temporary deployment to Iraq of about 1,500 elite 82nd Airborne Division soldiers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The military sent 1,100 82nd Airborne soldiers to Afghanistan in ...