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The Black Watch regiment is to be sent from the relative safety of the area around Basra in the South of Iraq, up to the more dangerous region west of Baghdad to provide cover for a much-heralded US army assault on the rebel stronghold of Falluja. It is widely suspected in the UK that this military decision has a crude political facet to it - to present evidence to an amnesiac and news-starved US electorate that there really is a coalition operating in Iraq, not just the US army, thereby elevating Dubya's electoral chances at this sensitive time.

The Guardian; Monday 18/10/04
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