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Report: Bush administration split over
military plan for Iraq
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) --
The Bush administration is split over the idea for a surge in troops to Iraq,
The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
White House officials are
aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, the report quoted U.S. officials familiar with the intense
debate as saying.
Pentagon report: Iraq violence reaches
record levels
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Violence in Iraq reached
the highest levels on record this autumn, fueled by sectarian strife that is
propelling the nation toward civil war, the Pentagon said in a report released
here Monday.
Between mid-August and mid-November, attack levels in
Iraq reached record highs in all categories as the number of U.S.-led coalition
casualties surged 32 percent and the number of weekly attacks rose 22 percent
nationwide, compared with those of the previous three months, according to the
report.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S.
secretary of state Colin Powell said Sunday that the United States is losing
what he described as a "civil war" in Iraq, the Washington Post said in a report
on Monday.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- California has the
highest number of military personnel killed in Iraq among all the U.S. states,
it was reported Monday.
Bush likely to support "surge" of additional U.S. troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George
W. Bush is likely to support a plan for a "surge" of additional American troops
to Iraq, ABC News reported Saturday.
The surge could involve more than 30,000 additional
troops and last as long as two years, sources were quoted as saying. That could
bring the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq to at least 164,000, the highest
total since the war started in March 2003.
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