4-2-08—Britain froze plans to pull out troops from Iraq after a faltering effort to drive Shiite militias from Basra and a jump in deaths raised doubts about Iraqi security capabilities. WSJ A1
--The Bush administration was caught off-guard by the first Iraqi-led military offensive since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a weeklong thrust in southern Iraq whose paltry results have silenced talk at the Pentagon of further US troop withdrawals any time soon. President Bush last week declared the offense, which ended Sunday, “a defining moment in Iraq’s history” ... “There is no empirical evidence that the Iraqi forces can stand up” on their own, a senior US military official in Washington said... SBT A3
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