Sunday, May 22, 2011

Britain withdraws troops from Iraq

.- The last of the troops in the country came out on Sunday, ending more than eight years of fighting insurgents and training local forces since the invasion in 2003. Eighty-eight Royal Navy sailors given the task of patrolling the waters off the southern port of Um Qasr in the Persian Gulf to Iraq Navy.

that was the last direct mission that British troops were in Iraq since combat forces withdrew from Basra in July 2009. Brigadier General Max Marriner, commander of the British force in Iraq, said a strong improvement in security conditions throughout the country, particularly in the south, which said British troops contributed.

"Security has improved mainly as Consequently, the economic and social development of the south has changed for the better, as the lives of the people, "Marriner said in a statement. He said the Iraqi army was ready to assume responsibility for the mission, "so now it is time for Britain to withdraw and let him complete the mission for which it was created." Officials said that 179 British soldiers killed in Iraq since the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

However, the war has been unpopular in Britain, where the current government research examines errors in the preparation and after the invasion. Whether the information used to make the case for war was altered when it was presented to parliament in September 2002 has been hotly debated since the invasion, after it found no evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

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