Pentagon expects to call up more reserve troops for Iraq

Friday, October 17, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is drawing up plans to mobilize more National Guard and Reserve forces for duty in Iraq, in the expectation that too few international troops will be available by early next year, officials said Thursday.

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