US troops could be out of Baghdad by July: Petraeus
September 5, 2008 LONDON (AFP) - American combat troops could be out of Baghdad by July 2009, the outgoing top US general in Iraq said in an interview published Thursday.
Asked by the Financial Times whether it was possible that the US combat troops could leave the Iraqi capital by then, General David Petraeus replied, “Conditions permitting, yeah.” “The number of attacks in Baghdad lately has been, gosh, I think it’s probably less than five (a day) on average, and that’s a city of seven million people,” he said.
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