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March 15, 2005
"The bitch set me up": Italy to Withdraw Troops From Iraq
3000 troops, the fourth-largest contingent, to begin departing in September.
Domestic opposition to Italy's involvement in Iraq intensified after the killing of an Italian agent by US troops in Baghdad earlier this month.
The surprise announcement came as Italy's lower house of parliament backed a recent Senate vote to extend the country's military presence in Iraq beyond June.
I guess the communist journalist got what she wanted. It is, as they say, a war of opinion as well as of bullets.