US troops leave anxious Iraqi cities

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With US troops about to withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities, there has been an upsurge in bomb attacks - but is this a sign of worse to come, asks Jim Muir, or a last throw of the dice from the militants?

Two days before the end-of-the-month deadline, this position, now just a wasteland, and its command building, were to be handed back to the Iraqis.

And not to the Iraqi army, whose units had already redeployed elsewhere but to the Ministry of Agriculture, the original owners of the command building, which was their research station.

The military base was simply disappearing, swords being turned to ploughshares...

[While the attacks continue? Are we trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of hard-won {paid in the blood of Americans} victory?]

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