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Small Force in Iraq Past Deadline  Released on 2012-10-16 17:00
GMT  Email-ID 3654908 Date 2011-09-07 04:47:00 Plan Would Keep
Small Force in Iraq Past Deadline Published: September 6, 2011
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a
plan that their withdrawal at year's end, but only to continue
training security forces there, a senior military official said
on Tuesday.  The recommendation would break a longstanding
pledge by President Obama to withdraw all American forces from
Iraq by the deadline. But it would still involve significantly
fewer forces than proposals presented at the Pentagon in recent
weeks by the senior American commander in Iraq, Gen. Lloyd J.
Austin III, to keep as many as 14,000 to 18,000 troops there.
The proposal for a smaller force - if approved by the White
House and the Iraq