Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces

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Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces

 

 

 

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Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces

 

Sat Oct 22, 5:45 PM ET

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on

U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said

to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The

Sunday Telegraph.

 

Less than 1 percent of those polled believed that the forces were

responsible for any improvement in security, according to poll figures.

 

Eighty-two percent of those polled said they were " strongly opposed "

to the presence of the troops.

 

The paper said the poll, conducted in August by an Iraqi university

research team, was commissioned by the Ministry of Defense.

 

Britain has more than 8,000 troops stationed in the south of Iraq,

and has had 97 soldiers killed, the most recent the victim of a

roadside bomb on Tuesday night.