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  • Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai on Twitter, January 6, 2020 9:36 PM
    This document is Fake. No #US imminent withdrawal from #Iraq...for now.
  • Mustafa Salim @Mustafa_salimb on Twitter, January 6, 2020 9:48 PM
    Breaking: US military tells Iraqi Joint operations command that they are preparing to move out.
  • Liz Sly @LizSly on Twitter, January 6, 2020 10:10 PM
    BREAKING: The US military sends a letter to the Iraqi military announcing the “onward movement” of US troops “in due deference to the sovereignty of Iraq & as requested by the Iraqi Parliament & the Iraqi PM”. It’s a withdrawal.
  • AFP news agency @AFP on Twitter, January 6, 2020 (already deleted)
    #BREAKING Letter on Iraq pullout "genuine" but sent by "mistake," says top US general
  • US Defense Secretary Esper says no decision to leave Iraq - AP, January 6, 2020 (2 minutes ago)
    “There’s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq,”
  • Iran Soleimani killing: US denies Iraq pullout amid letter mystery - BBC, January 6, 2020
    But Mr Esper said: "There's been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq. I don't know what that letter is... We're trying to find out where that's coming from, what that is.
    "But there's been no decision made to leave Iraq. Period."
  • Iraq PM confirms receiving ‘signed’ US pullout letter - PressTV, January 7, 2020
    US Defense Secretary Mark Esper later denied that the US military had announced preparation for “movement out of Iraq,” and the Pentagon claimed that an unsigned draft version of the letter had been sent by mistake.
    Abdel Mahdi, however, said he had received signed and translated copies at 8:00 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) on Monday.
  • Anatomy of a Screw-Up: The Story Behind the Letter Withdrawing Our Troops - Steve Hayes, The Dispatch, January 7, 2020
    It would prove definitive for less than an hour. The posting of the letter online unleashed a mad, behind-the-scenes scramble at the Pentagon, the White House, and on Capitol Hill, as elected officials, policymakers, military advisers and journalists sought to understand whether the letter intended to communicate what its plain language suggested.

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