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Brown: UK troops will end Iraq mission and leave in 2009

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri Maliki, said today that UK forces will have "completed their tasks" in the first half of 2009 and will then leave the country.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri Maliki, said today that UK forces will have "completed their tasks" in the first half of 2009 and will then leave the country.