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The top American military commander for the Middle East said Wednesday that to begin a significant troop withdrawal from Iraq over the next six months would lead to an increase in sectarian killings and hamper efforts to persuade the Iraqi government to make the difficult decisions needed to secure the country .
 location contains: Middle East, Iraq
Given options, please tell me the relationships of all the listed entity pairs.Output format is "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: ethnicity, place lived, geographic distribution, company industry, country of administrative divisions, administrative division of country, location contains, person of company, profession, ethnicity of people, company shareholder among major shareholders, sports team of location, religion, neighborhood of, company major shareholders, place of death, nationality, children, company founders, company founded place, country of capital, company advisors, sports team location of teams, place of birth 
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 Entity Pairs:  Middle East, Iraq 
Answer:
 location contains: Middle East, Iraq