Koizumi to announce plan to pull Japan's troops from Iraq

Koizumi to announce plan to pull Japan's troops from Iraq

SAMAWAH, Iraq - A unit of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force troops is on patrol outside a television station in Samawa, southern Iraq, on June 18. In Tokyo, a Japanese government source said that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will announce a plan on June 20 to withdraw Japanese troops from Samawah.

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