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Washington: India has not said a "flat no" to the US request to send a division of Indian troops to Iraq, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said.

Rumsfeld's remark came at a press conference in response to questions to Ambassador Paul Bremer, the top US civilian official in Iraq who reports to the Defence Secretary.

Bremner said, "It seems to me that's a question you really should ask the Indian government. They are capable of speaking for themselves. And I don't want to speculate as to what it would take to get the Indians in. They have to answer that question themselves."

When the same question was put to Rumsfeld, the American Defence Secretary said, "But they (India) have not said flat 'no'."

PTI