(Aljazeera) Withdrawing US forces from Iraq would leave the Middle East to the "forces of radicalism" and jeopardise US security, according to George Bush, the US president.
Bush's comments on Tuesday came as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, said the US was losing in Iraq and that Iran would fill the "power vacuum" in the region.
Soon after Bush's declaration that he had "authorised our military commanders in Iraq to confront Tehran's murderous activities", US soldiers arrested members of an Iranian electricity ministry delegation in Baghdad on Tuesday.