<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e5ced8af-2271-4311-9b32-6c949295d9e0/1149425E-4729-464C-BF05-3EB7A49B0036/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B7970014-27D5-4C4A-9F01-6C6264CE74F4.htm" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B7970014-27D5-4C4A-9F01-6C6264CE74F4.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">english.aljazeera.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B7970014-27D5-4C4A-9F01-6C6264CE74F4.htm"><SPAN class="DetaildSuammary" id="Htmlphcontrol1"><DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>General David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, has hinted he will recommend a reduction in US troop numbers around March when he reports to congress next week.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV><TABLE border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><INPUT type="submit" id="Htmlphcontrol1_btnCheckLength" value="Remove Format" name="Htmlphcontrol1:btnCheckLength" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD></TD><TD><SPAN id="Htmlphcontrol1_lblError"></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></SPAN> <TABLE height="10"><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SPAN class="DetaildSuammary" id="Htmlphcontrol2"><DIV> <DIV> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN><SPAN>"The surge will run its course. There are limits to what our military can provide, so, my recommendations have to be informed by - not driven by - but they have to be informed by the strain we have put on our military services," Petraeus said.</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B7970014-27D5-4C4A-9F01-6C6264CE74F4.htm">ABC News quoted him as saying he is not feeling pressure from the political debate to present a "rosy picture" of the war.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B7970014-27D5-4C4A-9F01-6C6264CE74F4.htm">"Eight of the past 11 weeks have seen the number of incidents, the number of attacks, come down, and to the point that they reached a level that's about the lowest in well over a year, I think," he said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B7970014-27D5-4C4A-9F01-6C6264CE74F4.htm">Meanwhile, 11 people were killed and 23 others wounded after a bomb exploded in a Shia neighbourhood of Baghdad on Wednesday</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1149425E-4729-464C-BF05-3EB7A49B0036/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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