British army in Iraq -- withdraw or retreat

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MoD statement on withdrawal
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said: "Our decisions in Basra reflect the situation on the ground, above all the growing capacity of the Iraqi security forces, and are signed off by the coalition and the Iraqi government."
BBC correspondent Richard Galpin in Baghdad said this was a "highly symbolic moment, marking the end of Britain's physical military presence in any Iraqi city".
Former Foreign Office official Rory Stewart, who served as deputy governor of two southern Iraqi provinces from 2003 to 2004, told the BBC's Have Your Say programme that "we simply do not have any control over southern Iraq and that has been the situation in my mind for about two-and-a-half years now".
The withdrawal of British troops from the southern Iraqi city of Basra is not a defeat, Gordon Brown has insisted.
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