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| Italy to pull troops from Iraq in three or four months |
| 2006-06-17 |
| ROME - Italy will have completed the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq within three to four months, junior defence minister Lorenzo Forcieri said on Friday. “In three months, four at the most, all the Italian troops will have returned from Iraq,” Forcieri was quoted by the Ansa news agency as saying during a visit to Malta. On Wednesday Italy began a further reduction of its troop strength, which will be down to 1,600 men by the end of June. Forcieri said the precise timetable for withdrawing Italian troops was a”technical” matter. “The military is in the process of deciding, but we are talking about three, four months for the complete withdrawal of our troops,” he said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |