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US to reduce troops size in Iraq early next year
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-12-24 14:35

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addresses soldiers during a Town Hall meeting in Fallujah, Iraq, December 23, 2005. Rumsfeld said on Friday the number of U.S. combat troops in Iraq would be cut by some 7,000 by early next year, but the number involved in training Iraq's new military would increase.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addresses soldiers during a Town Hall meeting in Fallujah, Iraq, December 23, 2005. Rumsfeld said on Friday the number of U.S. combat troops in Iraq would be cut by some 7,000 by early next year, but the number involved in training Iraq's new military would increase. [Reuters]

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