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...things stand over the next three months. Violence levels are an important factor, but so is the Iraqi ability to take over security from the American troops. Iraqi security forces have the nominal lead in nine of 18 provinces, having recently taken over from the British in Basra. A proposal to hand over security to Iraqi forces in Anbar this spring is now being considered. Anbar province has been the U.S. military's prize example in the dramatic suppression of the radical Islamists of Al Qaeda in Iraq...
JALIL KHALAF, Iraqi police commander in Basra, on British forces withdrawing from the city and surrounding province...
...They left me militia, they left me gangsters, and they left me all the troubles in the world. JALIL KHALAF, Iraqi police commander in Basra, on British forces withdrawing from the city and surrounding province...
...that violence has ended, but we are able to move to provincial Iraqi control, and that's thanks to everything you have achieved.' GORDON BROWN, British Prime Minister, informing U.K. soldiers in Basra on Dec. 9 that the last Iraqi area under British control would be handed over to local troops within two weeks...
GORDON BROWN, British Prime Minister, informing U.K. soldiers in Basra on Dec. 9 that the last Iraqi area under British control would be handed over to local troops within two weeks...