ARAB-EUROPEAN RELATIONS - Oct 21 - UK Agrees To Redeploy Troops Despite Political Furore.UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon hoon Austral & NZ slang Noun a loutish youth who drives irresponsibly Verb to drive irresponsibly agrees to a US request to redeploy re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. some of Britain's troops to central Iraq, despite claims from critics that such a move can expose UK forces to greater danger and higher casualty rates. Hoon says the decision meant some 850 British soldiers would be redeployed for a short period to allow American forces to tackle insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. . Expectation has been growing that US forces are gearing up for an onslaught on the insurgent INSURGENT. One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes the tyranny of constituted authorities. stronghold of Falluja. Given that some of the British troops scheduled for redeployment re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. will begin the move only early next month, the offensive appears to have moved to mid-November after the US elections. The redeployed UK forces will retain autonomy in their area of operation, but control of the overall zone remains with a US Marine colonel. The issue of redeployment has sparked an outcry in Britain not least among members of the governing Labour party. A prominent Labour leftwinger Dennis Skinner Dennis Edward Skinner (born February 11, 1932, Clay Cross, Derbyshire) is a British politician, and Labour Member of Parliament for Bolsover since 1970. He was chairman of the Labour Party between 1988 and 1989, and has sat on the National Executive Committee in most years , asked Hoon in parliament: "Don't you think it is slightly ironic that the American president and his vice-president, who both refused to face the muck and bullets in Vietnam, are now calling upon British forces to bail them out"? The Pentagon denied that the request to redeploy UK troops signalled that US troops were overstretched o·ver·stretch v. o·ver·stretched, o·ver·stretch·ing, o·ver·stretch·es v.tr. 1. To stretch excessively; overstrain. 2. To stretch or extend over. v.intr. . A Pentagon spokesman says: "The US commanders on the ground have the forces that they have informed us that they need to conduct operations on the ground. This request was in support of creating the best possible security situation and conditions for the upcoming Iraqi elections". The British troops, most of whom will come from the Black Watch regiment, are expected to move into areas immediately to the west and south of Baghdad. The UK has some 8,500 troops in Iraq, concentrated in a zone centred on the southern city of Basra. In the US the debate over whether the military, which has a force of around 140,000 in Iraq, is over-extended has become a prominent election campaign issue. |
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