FALLUJA (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday the number of U.S. combat forces in Iraq would be cut by some 7,000 by early next year, but the numbers involved in training Iraq's new military would increase.
Army General George Casey, the U.S. commander in Iraq, later told reporters that the U.S. force would be reduced to a new baseline of about 130,000 from the current standard level of 138,000.
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