http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=441887Under fierce grilling from both Democratic and Republican Senators yesterday, senior US officials admitted they had no idea how long American troops would be staying in Iraq, or when the extra international forces sought by President George Bush would be deployed to help them.
In further attacks against US troops, a car bomb exploded outside an office used by American soldiers in northern Iraq, killing one Iraqi and wounding six Americans and 41 Iraqis.
A US soldier was killed and one wounded when a homemade bomb exploded near a military vehicle on a supply route north-east of Baghdad, US Central Command said today.
Testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary, and General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered the first defence on Capitol Hill of President Bush's $87bn (£55bn) funding request, for the US military and reconstruction effort in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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