A leaked memorandum by a senior American staff officer in Baghdad suggests pulling all troops out by the middle of next year, 15 months early.

一位美国驻巴格达高级官员在备忘录中透露说，美方将在次年年中撤出所有士兵，这比计划提早了15个月。

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Larry Wortzel, a former army attaché at the US embassy in Beijing, remembers the subsequent warning he received from a senior Chinese military officer with the PLA's General Staff Department.

前美国驻华使馆武官拉里•沃策尔（Larry Wortzel）还记得上述事件过后，自己从解放军总参谋部一位高级将领那里得到的警告。

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On Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence announced that Gen Sir David Richards is to be the next chief of the defence staff, the UK's most senior military officer.

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The MBPA said the current suspensions of Commander Ali Dizaei and Britain's most senior Muslim officer, Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, were proof that ethnic minority officers were treated less favourably than white staff.

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