Iraqi leader tries to ease Australian fears over new troop deployment (AFP)

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AFP - Iraq's interim prime minister sought to soothe public fears here that a new contingent of Australian troops being sent to train Iraqi forces in the country's south will get bogged down in deadly fighting.

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