Pentagon readies 35,000 soldiers in 10 brigade combat teams for deployment starting in August, deny related to 'surge'

Soldiers from the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team and Iraqi police sprint through the open areas during a cordon and search for weapons caches and anti-Iraqi forces in Old Baqubah in April

WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday it told another 35,000 U.S. soldiers they were in line to go to Iraq, a move that gives commanders enough forces to maintain a security crackdown there through at least the end of the year...

"This deployment announcement of the next 10 units that are in the queue has nothing to do with a decision to extend the surge," Whitman said....

The Defense Department announcement identified 10 Army units, known as brigade combat teams, in line for deployment between August and December 2007.

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