- 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.
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- Less than 1 percent of those polled believed that the
forces were responsible for any improvement in security, according to poll
figures.
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- Eighty-two percent of those polled said they were "strongly
opposed" to the presence of the troops.
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- The paper said the poll, conducted in August by an Iraqi
university research team, was commissioned by the Ministry of Defense.
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- 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.
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