Posted on 08/27/2003 11:14:53 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:07:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BAGHDAD — No additional U.S. troops are needed in Iraq, says the Iraqi National Congress, which is pushing for greater Iraqi sovereignty and control over the security forces now being built.
"It is absolutely not necessary for more American troops to come to Iraq," said INC spokesman Entifah K. Qanbar at a news conference in the capital, Baghdad, yesterday. "We believe the matter of security is not a matter of security by American troops but by Iraqis taking security into their hands and tracking down terrorists themselves."
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