Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that Britain would pull 1,000 more troops out of southern Iraq by the end of the year."Hopefully they will be home by Christmas," Brown told reporters in Baghdad during his first trip to Iraq since becoming prime minister in June.
Brown also confirmed during an unannounced visit there that Britain would turn control of the southern Iraq province of Basra over to Iraqi army and security forces in the next two months.
"What we propose to do over these next few months is to move from a situation where we have a combat role to an over-watch role," Brown told reporters in Iraq.
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