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Pentagon: 138,000 Troops To Stay until End of 2005

HeadlineMay 05, 2004

The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it planned to keep as many as 138,000 U.S. troops in Iraq through the end of 2005–more than twice as many as originally projected. Plans are also underway to send more tanks and armored vehicles to Iraq. A group of 21 leading Shiite Muslim leaders in Iraq have called on cleric Moqtada Sadr to abandon their strongholds in Najaf and Karbala and for the US to remain outside the cities.

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