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Poll
shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces
By Reuters
10/22/05 -- -- LONDON (Reuters) - Sixty-five percent of Iraqis
believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according
to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defence
leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph.
Less than 1 percent of those polled believed that the forces were
responsible for any improvement in security, according to poll
figures.
Eighty-two percent of those polled said they were "strongly opposed"
to the presence of the troops.
The paper said the poll, conducted in August by an Iraqi university
research team, was commissioned by the Ministry of Defence.
Britain has more than 8,000 troops stationed in the south of Iraq,
and has had 97 soldiers killed, the most recent the victim of a
roadside bomb on Tuesday night.
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