Black Watch to be deployed to help US
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The UK will send 850 soldiers comprising the Black Watch and supporting units to western Iraq, Geoff Hoon has announced in the House of Commons.
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The Scots Guards are on stand-by to become the second British regiment to be deployed to areas of Iraq formerly occupied by the Americans.
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British troops will be sent to Africa on emergency peacekeeping missions as part of a 10,000-strong European Union force. They will serve as members of &quot;rapidly-deployable
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CAMP LEJEUNE, NC -- Camp Lejeune Marines patrolling south of Baghdad, Iraq, are getting help from British troops. The 24th Marine Exepeditionary Unit of some 2,200 troops says it is being reinforced by some
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The future of the historic Black Watch is expected to be decided by army chiefs tomorrow. The executive committee of the Army Board is thought to be meeting to decide the plan to restructure
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America has requested the assistance of UK troops in Iraq, which would involve British soldiers operating outside the UK-controlled southern sector of Iraq, the defence secretary confirmed today.
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The Cabinet is to discuss plans to send soldiers from the Black Watch to support American forces around Baghdad, amid reports that more British troops could soon be on their way to Iraq.
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The Black Watch battle group has been set back into its Basra base ahead of the soldiersâ anticipated return to the UK for Christmas.
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Soldiers from 1st Battalion The Black Watch prepare to move north into a US sector of central Iraq.
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The Black Watch battalion was yesterday ordered by the Cabinet to help US forces throw a &quot;ring of steel&quot; around Fallujah before an all-out assault on insurgents in the city.
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Reports of &quot;an incident&quot; involving soldiers from the Black Watch in Iraq are being investigated, the Ministry of Defence has said.
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The 850-strong Black Watch battle group is settling back into its Basra base ahead of the troops&#39; anticipated return to the UK within the next week.
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Another Scottish regiment may be deployed to the dangerous US-controlled area south of Baghdad when the Black Watch leaves there before Christmas, it emerged today.
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The Black Watch ran into a series of terrorist bombs yesterday as it moved towards the &quot;triangle of death&quot; around Baghdad to take over from American marines due to join an assault on the rebel city of Fallujah.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq An advance party of British soldiers has arrived at its new base near Baghdad. The small group from the Scottish Black Watch regiment set up base camp south of the capital, according to a pool report made to British media.
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The first units of a Black Watch battlegroup are due to arrive today in their new positions south of Baghdad as Tony Blair indicated that more British troops may replace them in the American-controlled zone before the end of the year.
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon will make a Commons statement this afternoon on the deployment of 650 soldiers of the Black Watch to a US-controlled sector in Iraq, Downing Street confirmed today.