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In a classified briefing to senior Pentagon officials last month , the top American commander in the Middle East outlined a plan that would gradually reduce American forces in Iraq by perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 troops by next spring , three senior military officers and Defense Department officials said Saturday .
 location contains: Middle East, Iraq
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "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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Answer:
 location contains: Middle East, Iraq