BAGHDAD: The United States said on Thursday it will pour more troops into Iraq after another US soldier died there in a roadside ambush and Russia agreed to consider reducing Iraq's crippling debt.
Senior defence officials said Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the deployment of an extra brigade of the elite 82nd Airborne Division to Iraq next month and extended the tour of duty of another brigade to maintain combat power as other forces are rotated out.
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