Reid told BBC radio that he agreed with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's recent assessment that the insurgency might continue for a number of years. But Reid said Iraqi security forces might be able to lead the fight "within a year."
He said the coalition was involved in a "major struggle" but had made "huge progress" with elections last January and a transitional assembly set up.
In Iraq today, a car bomb killed two civilians in Baghdad.
Also, in the northern city of Mosul, officials with the Kurdish Democratic Party say a senior party member, Jirjis Mohammed Amn, was shot dead.
(AP/AFP)
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Britain: Iraq Security Handover Could Start Next Year
4 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- British Defense Secretary John Reid said today the U.S.-led coalition may be able to start handing over security responsibilities to Iraqi forces in one year.
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