Iraq soldiers coming home

The prime minister put forth a withdrawal plan today that will bring Danish troops home from Iraq

All Danish soldiers in Iraq will be home in August, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced at a press meeting today.

At a press conference this afternoon, Rasmussen said the Danish withdrawal was co-ordinated to co-incide with a British drawdown announced earlier today. The Danish battalion in Basra in southern Iraq falls under British command.

In addition, no new rotations of troops will me made, as the last unit was just recently deployed.

-CPHPOST.DK