Military may send soldiers from Kuwait to Iraq

Military may send soldiers from Kuwait to Iraq
By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is considering sending hundreds of soldiers from a force held in reserve in Kuwait into Iraq to provide extra security as Iraq prepares to seat a new government, a defense official said on Friday.

The soldiers are from a "call-forward" force trained, ready and available in Kuwait for rapid reaction to problems in Iraq or for use to bolster security for certain milestones, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because no decision has been made.

The official said commanders are considering sending an Army battalion task force to Baghdad and surrounding areas to augment security.

The move would duplicate one made in March when the United States sent about 650 soldiers into Iraq from a brigade of the 1st Armored Division in Kuwait. Those soldiers remain in Iraq as part of a U.S. force numbering about 133,000 troops.

"There probably will be a pending troop movement," the official said.

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U.S. sending reinforcements to violent Ramadi

U.S. sending reinforcements to violent Ramadi

U.S. military commanders will order more U.S. troops to the Iraqi city of Ramadi, the volatile Anbar provincial capital where troops and insurgents have been fighting new pitched battles, CNN learned on Friday.

The reinforcements, described as a significant number, will come from other areas inside Iraq, but military sources are not saying exactly when the troops will arrive.

Fighting has been raging in the sprawling, largely Sunni Arab province west of Baghdad for days; coalition forces have engaged insurgents in the area every day since May 7, the military said.

Anbar has been a major front in the ongoing insurgency.

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