Word: pullout
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...going home by expanding their occupation zone. Saying yes would require dispatching several thousand British soldiers to Iraq. Blair's strong instinct is to accede. But British officers fear that what one calls the "Fort Apache tactics" of American forces, most notably in Fallujah before last week's pullout, are starting to suck the country into a spiral of bloody resistance and bloodier response. General Mike Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, alluded to this two weeks ago when he said, "We must be able to fight with the Americans, but we don't have to fight as the Americans...
...daily reports of U.S. servicemen and -women dying in Iraq continue at their current pace, calls for a pullout could increase. That will be particularly true if--and it's still a big if--the rebellion among the Shi'ites spreads well beyond where it is today. Having given more than 600 of their sons and daughters to remove Saddam and help rebuild the country, Americans are not likely to be patient if the majority of Iraqis seem to be turning on them...
...attacks; on Saturday, a Bosnian on a police wanted list turned himself in. But nearly everything else seems set to change. Zapatero's ambitious agenda includes new approaches to both Spain's constitution and Europe's, awarding gay couples some of the legal rights of marriage, and the pullout of the country's 1,300 troops from Iraq. But the defining tone of Zapatero's administration may be set by the country's fight against the Basque terrorist group ETA, which has killed over 800 people in the last 36 years during its campaign for an independent state. That battle...
...prospect of the green and white banners of Hamas being hoisted over the vacated settlements of Gaza that has the hawkish faction of Sharon's own Likud party warning that withdrawal will be claimed by Palestinians as a victory for terrorism, and that like Israel's unilateral pullout from Lebanon in 2000, the result will be to encourage further violence...
ISRAELI DIRECTION: Bruised battler Ariel Sharon tries to orchestrate a pullout from Gaza even as he faces a possible indictment over bribery...