British Prime Minister Tony Blair has faced

a revolt from lawmakers who demanded a parliamentary vote on a US request to

redeploy British troops in Iraq.

44 Labor lawmakers, joined by opposition party leaders, demanded a vote

from the Commons over the redeployment on Wednesday's debate.

Blair was asked why it is necessary to redeploy 650 British troops when

there are 130,000 US troops in Iraq.

He did not answer the vote demand directly, saying only that a decision on

the redeployment has yet to be made and that he would consider the advice from

the military.

Analysts fear that the British troop redeployment will be under the US

command and used by US President George W. Bush in his race for the Nov.2

presidential elections.

The British government confirmed Monday that US military asked Britain to

redeploy some British ground forces to relieve US forces for other

anti-terrorism fight in Iraq.

Britain now has about 9,000 troops deployed in Iraq.

Source:CRI News