By David Morgan
WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked Congress to redirect about $1.2 billion of the Pentagon's 2007 budget to buy special armored vehicles to protect U.S. troops in Iraq, defense officials said on Wednesday.
The additional money would increase the Pentagon's procurement of the armored vehicles by two-thirds in 2007 and enable defense officials to deliver 3,400 vehicles to commanders in Iraq by the end of December, ...
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