Iraqi sources say Iraqi leaders are reviewing more than one scenario for a partial USIraq. One of the scenarios suggests reducing the personnel from 150,000 to 90,000 men and redeploying the remaining forces in Iraq. The US forces will stay in Baghdad, Basra, in the suburbs of Mosul, Ramadi, Baaquba and Takrit and near oil wells in southern Iraq. Another scenario confirms personnel cut plan, but suggests pulling the remaining forces gradually out of Iraq by mid-year 2006, and keeping 25,000 men only to protect oilfields and Iraqi coast. This scenario depends on the entry of Arab and Islamic peacekeeping forces to western Iraq, however. withdrawal from
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