'Iraq violence levels not anticipated'
Reuters, New Delhi
The United States and its allies had not expected the soaring level of violence and sectarian killings in Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Friday. Beckett, who began a week-long visit to India on Thursday, said the security situation in Iraq was very grave and said American and British troops were making strong efforts to control violence in Baghdad and the Basra region. Her comments came amid growing public pressure in the United States and Britain to bring troops back from Iraq, and a strong prospect that President George W Bush's Republicans will lose control of Congress in Nov. 7 polls over his Iraq policy.
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