The U.S. president, George Bush, announced on Tuesday that his country's military contingent in Iraq will be reduced by 8,000 soldiers next October and that, before the end of his mandate (in January 2009), sent some 4,500 military to Afghanistan.
Progress in Iraq will allow 3,500 additional troops in support units will return home during next month, a battalion of marines before November and a brigade of the Army in February, Bush said in a speech in Washington.
In November, a battalion of marines who would be deployed in Iraq will do in Afghanistan, and will be followed by a combat brigade of the Army, told the National Defense University, an institution of military education.
