U.S. military takes first step to quit Iraqi cities
Posted on January 4th, 2009
By Tim Cocks
Reuters
Saturday, January 3, 2009
The U.S. military took a step toward pulling combat troops from Iraqi cities on Saturday, moving out of a Baghdad base that Iraqi officials said would be dismantled and converted back into a shopping mall.
It was the first U.S. military base to be handed over to Iraq since U.S. forces came under Iraqi authority on January 1 in step with a new bilateral security pact. …
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