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...pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...troops would be pared down from 14 to 12 brigades by September, reducing the 140,000-strong force by 12,000. President Barack Obama plans to withdraw all combat troops by September next year, leaving a residual force of up to 50,000 support and training troops. Four thousand British troops are also scheduled to pull out in the next few months...
...similar note, Sir Hugh Orde, Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), revealed last week that he had called in reinforcements to help counter the threat posed by dissident republicans. Orde announced the British Army's Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) was supporting the PSNI with surveillance and intelligence-gathering duties. This was heavily criticized by Catholic politicians, some of whom raised the specter of British troops returning to the streets of Northern Ireland. Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein called the SRR deployment "dangerous and stupid...
...TIME's photos of the British army withdrawing from Ulster...
...group's 23,252 members: "Congratulations, Sir Edward Kennedy! I can think of no greater addition to the legend of the American Camelot than the knighthood of one of its most deserving sons just after electing one of its (metaphorically) adopted sons to the Presidency." With British Conservatives divided and American Democrats charmed, perhaps Prime Minister Brown is an accomplished magician after...