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"Britain is not physically capable of fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
at the same time," the unnamed senior military official told the weekly.

"The question is: which do we give up? The government and the defence chiefs
have decided that we should give up Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070603/wl_mideast_afp/britainmilitaryiraqafghanistan_070603021419;_ylt=AtQ0fp15EjtlbaSF0nV7EGYE1vAI

Britain planning Iraq pullout within a year, focus on Afghanistan

LONDON (AFP) - British military chiefs are preparing to withdraw troops from
Iraq within 12 months in order to concentrate on Afghanistan, The Sunday
Telegraph said citing a senior military official.

A new timetable that would see a complete unilateral British withdrawal from
Iraq by next May will be presented to incoming prime minister Gordon Brown
within weeks of him taking over from
Tony Blair on June 27, said the newspaper.

Under Blair, Britain has consistently maintained that any pullout of troops
in Iraq should be dictated by events on the ground, not a timetable.

But the broadsheet said Brown will be told by defence chiefs that Britain
should withdraw from Iraq in "quick order" so as to bolster efforts to beat
Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.

"Britain is not physically capable of fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
at the same time," the unnamed senior military official told the weekly.

"The question is: which do we give up? The government and the defence chiefs
have decided that we should give up Iraq.

"There is an agreed timetable, a glide path, which will see a complete
unilateral withdrawal in 12 months."

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