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| | NucNews - October 6, 2004 |
 | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - Iraq had essentially destroyed its illicit weapons capability within months after the Persian Gulf War ended in 1991, and its capacity to produce such weapons had eroded even further by the time of the American invasion in 2003, the top American inspector in Iraq said in a report made public today. |
 | | TOKYO, Oct. 6 -- The United States has agreed to withdraw 12,500 troops from South Korea over several years rather than pulling them all out by the end of next year, as was initially planned, the Pentagon and South Korean officials said Wednesday. |
 | | Roughly 6 percent will be taken as contractor profit, 10 percent finances U.S. government overhead, and more than a quarter will be lost to mismanagement, corruption, insurance costs and the soaring salaries of non-Iraqi workers. |
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