The general declined several times to put an actual number on the combat troops who would remain in Baghdad and Mosul after June 30 because, he said, he did not know the precise number of troops there now. The 134,000 American troops in Iraq include 14 combat brigades. Those brigades number about 50,000 to 70,000 troops. |
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