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Abrupt Iraq withdrawal may deepen crisis, says UN Chief
Jul 18 2007, AMIT

The pressure on Bush administration to pull out troops from Iraq at the earliest and make radical shift in his Iraq misadventure, has lessened with unexpected support coming from the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The UN chief, though, never...

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