Britain May Miss Deadline for Withdrawl
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LONDON — The British government may not meet its promise to slash troop levels in Iraq to 2,500 by the summer, defense officials indicated yesterday. A report, meanwhile, revealed that the cost for Britain of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan almost doubled in the last year to more than $6 billion. In October, Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised to cut the number of British troops in Iraq to 2,500 starting in the spring. Officials said then that the cut would be completed by mid-2008.
