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UK envoy predicts `rough winter` in Iraq

IRNA

London, Nov 6, IRNA -- Britain`s special representative in Iraq Sir 
Jeremy Greenstock warned Thursday that Anglo-American coalition 
troops faced months of difficulties in Iraq due to the security 
situation. 
"I believe we are in for a rough winter on the security front," he 
said, adding that British troops could still be in Iraq for three 
more years. 
Greenstock, who was Britain`s ambassador to the UN when it failed 
to agree a resolution to sanction the war, suggested that the 
coalition had to win more time from a sceptical local population, 
while it helped to set up an Iraqi government. 
There were added difficulties in setting up a constitutional 
convention ahead of planned elections for late next year, but he 
suggested that the timetable was "expendable." 
But more than six months after the war, Greenstock said that he 
remained "pretty confident" that the deposed Iraqi president Saddam 
Hussein would eventually be caught. 
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