Igc Complains About Announcement That

IGC Complains about Announcement that Coalition Troops will Stay

The British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has now said that UK troops are likely to be in Iraq until at least 2007. Interim Governing Council member Mahmoud Osman, in a telephone interview with Cairo radio, complained that this announcement contravened the November 15 accord between the Coalition Provisional Authority and the IGC, which stipulated that US, British and other troops would remain at the pleasure of the new Iraqi government. (ash-Sharq al-Awsat)