Move troops to Iran border, Brown told

This is the first of a series of articles in the Telegraph, beginning this past Sunday, tracing a movement of American and British forces in southeastern Iraq, toward the Iranian border.General David Petraeus will press Gordon Brown to increase the number of British troops patrolling the Iraqi border with Iran when he meets the Prime Minister this week.The US commander in Iraq wants Britain to move a significant proportion of the 5,000 troops garrisoned at Basra airport to cut off the smuggling of Iranian weapons to Shia militias.

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