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LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Forty-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.
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.
