WASHINGTON - A bipartisan commission has reached a consensus on new US policies for Iraq and will announce its recommendations next week, the group's co-chairman said Wednesday.

US soldiers secure the scene following a car bomb explosion in Mosul, northern Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006. [AP]

Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., declined to disclose any specifics about the Iraq Study Group's decisions. The report, much anticipated by the Bush administration and members of Congress, is coming out next Wednesday amid the spiraling violence in Iraq that has raised questions about the viability of the Iraqi government and US policy for a deeply unpopular war.

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"This afternoon, we reached a consensus ... and we will announce that on December 6," Hamilton told a forum on national security at the Center for American Progress, a liberal group.