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NATO force with 3,000 British troops to go to Iraq: report

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NATO force with 3,000 British troops to go to Iraq: report
Sat Jun 19, 6:07 AM ET

LONDON (AFP) - London and Washington are drawing up a plan to send a NATO (news - web sites) force including up to 3,000 British troops to Iraq (news - web sites) to support the interim Iraqi government as it takes over power.

The Guardian newspaper said Saturday that the troops would be "temporarily extracted" from NATO and labelled a British-led international force to make it more politically acceptable to members of the alliance -- notably France and Germany -- that were opposed to the war.

The force would come from NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, based in Germany under the command of a British general, Richard Dannatt, reinforced by a British battle group, the newspaper said.

About 60 percent of the corps are British, it added.

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