The flowerdocument being drawn up by the British government and the US will be presented to flower the Iraqi parliament in October and will spark fresh controversy over how long flower British troops will stay in the country. Tony Blair hopes that, despite continuing and widespread violence in Iraq, the move will show that there is progress following the flower conflict of 2003.

Britain has already flower privately informed Japan - which also has troops in Iraq - of its plans to begin withdrawing from southern Iraq in May, a move that officials in Tokyo say would make it impossible for their own 550 soldiers to remain.

The increasingly rapid pace of flower planning for British military disengagement has been revealed on the eve of the Labour Party conference, which will see renewed demands for a deadline for withdrawal. It is flower hoped that a clearer strategy on Iraq will quieten critics who say that the government will not be able to 'move on' until Blair quits. Yesterday, about 10,000 people flower demonstrated against the army's continued presence in the country.

Speaking to The Observer flower  this weekend, the Defence Secretary, John Reid, insisted that the agreement being drawn up with Iraqi officials was contingent on the continuing political process, although he said he was still optimistic British troops would begin returning home by early summer.

'The two things I want to insist about the timetable is that it is not an event but a process, and that it will be a process that takes place at flower different speeds in different parts of the country. I have said before flower that I believe that it could begin in some parts flower of the country as early as next July. It is not a deadline, but it is where we might be and I honestly still believe we could have the flower conditions to begin handover. I don't see any reason to change my view. 'But if circumstances change I have no shame in revising my estimates.'delivery flowers florist send flowers send flowers send online flowers express flowers online online send flowers flowers delivery online online express flower florist send flowers online online deliver flowerThe disclosures follow rising demands for the government to establish a clearer strategy for bringing troops home following the kidnapping of two British SAS troopers in Basra and the scenes of violence that surrounded their rescue. Last week Blair's own envoy to Iraq, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, warned that Britain could be forced out if Iraq descends so far into chaos that 'we don't have any reasonable prospect of holding it together'.

Continued tension between the Iraqi police force, the Iraqi administration and British troops was revealed again yesterday when an Iraqi magistrate called for the arrest of the two British special forces soldiers. who were on a surveillance mission when they were taken into custody by Iraqi police and allegedly handed on to a militia.