UK sets Iraq pullout timetable

[Bustem' Down]

LONDON, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to withdraw nearly half of his country's 7,200 troops from Iraq by the end of 2007, according to media reports.

Wednesday's expected announcement comes after Blair on Sunday declared that the British mission in Basra in southern Iraq -- codenamed "Sinbad" -- had been "completed" and "successful."

Last one out get stuck with the bill.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/21/uk.iraq.troops/index.html