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   Todd Allen, a Las Vegas resident, told CNN he once lived with the girl from the video and her mother. He said he recognizes his old apartment from scenes in the video. He said he knows the suspect because Allen's mother dated Stiles and the couple spent time together at Allen's apartment. Watch Allen describe Stiles and the girl »BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday for meetings with Iraqi government officials, the British Embassy in Baghdad said. The visit comes as unconfirmed reports suggestedBrown was considering a reduction in the number of British troops in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Reports said as many as 2,000 troops could be home by the spring, according to the British Press Association. The Basra contingent could fall to little over 3,000 in the next six months, the PA reported, citing The Daily Telegraph newspaper. Someone close to Stiles told investigators Stiles is a "survivalist type" and always car!  ries a weapon, Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett said. The tech-dominated Nasdaq also gained 1.5 percent for its highest close since February 2001 while the S&P 500 gained 1.3 percent. Carol Ann Gotbaum may have accidentally strangled herself while trying to get out of her handcuffs, Phoenix Police Department spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said Saturday. Allen said nobody realized the child had been abused.

 "She's what you'd expect a little girl in elementary school to be like," he said. "You would never know something like that happened. Ever." "But I have seen him verbally and mentally assault many people," Allen told CNN. "He's good with mind games. He's good at twisting people's realities and manipulating people."(CNN) -- Darren Tuck, the man who gave police a tape depicting the rape of a 3-year-old girl, turned himself in Sunday to Nye County, Nevada, authorities. Finding Gotbaum "unconscious and not breathing," Hill said, officers performed CPR. CNN and other news organizations did so until the child was found, and De Meo asked media to stop showing the picture. Investigators said officers went to check on her five to 10 minutes later. Police policy requires that be done every 15 minutes. Stiles was a distant friend of the girl's family, De Meo said.

 "According to investigators, it appeared as though Ms. Gotbaum had possibly tried to manipulate the handcuffs from behind her to the front, got tangled up in the process, and they ended up around her neck area," he said. Allen said he never witnessed Stiles physically assault anyone. Authorities have identified Chester A. Stiles, 37, as the suspect in the tape. A resident of Pahrump, Nevada, he remains at-large, De Meo said. Pahrump is about 60 miles west of Las Vegas. Betsy Gotbaum called Carol Ann Gotbaum "a wonderful, wonderful person" and a great mother. She said the family was dealing with the situation "the best way we can." "The mother has cooperated with us," De Meo said. "We believe that the mother was not aware of anything that went on with this young girl. It was very sad for her to find this out." While handcuffed, the New Yorker became "disruptive" and she was taken to a holding room, where she was left alone, Hill told CNN affiliate KTVK.